{"id":1367,"date":"2023-07-07T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/navied-mahdavian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T23:30:35","slug":"navied-mahdavian","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/navied-mahdavian\/","title":{"rendered":"Navied Mahdavian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Navied Mahdavian<\/strong> has been a contributing cartoonist to <em>The New Yorker<\/em> since 2018, where his cartoons and comics appear regularly. He is the author of the graphic memoir <em>This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America<\/em>. He has received fellowships from MacDowell (2022) and La Napoule Art Foundation (2022). His work has also appeared in <em>The LA Times<\/em>, <em>Wired<\/em>, <em>Reader&#8217;s Digest,<\/em> <em>Alta Online<\/em>, among other places, and in the cartoon collections <em>The Rejection Collection<\/em> (2022) and <em>Send Help!<\/em> (2021). Before becoming a cartoonist, Mahdavian taught fifth grade, where he learned most of his jokes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1369\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-686x1024.jpeg 686w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-768x1146.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-1030x1536.jpeg 1030w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-1373x2048.jpeg 1373w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-1140x1701.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-920x1372.jpeg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-575x858.jpeg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-380x567.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1-800x1193.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WebCover_Mahdavian_This-Country_-Searching-for-Home-in-Very-Rural-America_This-Country-COVER_frontonly-Navied-Mahdavian-copy-scaled-1.jpeg 1716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navied Mahdavian has been a contributing cartoonist to The New Yorker since 2018, where his cartoons and comics appear regularly. 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