Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize for “The Really Big One,” her article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak,” a New Yorker story that was anthologized in Best American Essays. Her work has also appeared in Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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