Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New York­er and the author of Being Wrong. 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 The Best Amer­i­can Essays. Her work has also appeared in The Best Amer­i­can Sci­ence and Nature Writ­ing, The Best Amer­i­can Trav­el Writ­ing, and The Best Amer­i­can Food Writ­ing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her fam­i­ly on the East­ern Shore of Maryland.