Evan Ratliff is an award-winning journalist and the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of The Atavist Magazine. As a longtime contributor to Wired, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, and other magazines, he has reported from around the globe on transnational crime, sci­ence and technology, the environment, terrorism, and corruption.

He is a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, and his writing has been selected for numerous Best American collec­tions. His 2009 Wired story "Vanish," about his attempt to disappear and the public’s effort to find him, was selected by the magazine as one of the twenty best stories in its history.

He also cohosts the acclaimed Longform podcast and was a found­ing editor of Pop-Up Magazine, a live journalism event that tours the United States. He is the co-author of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World, about innovation and counterterrorism, and the editor of the collection Love and Ruin: Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak.

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992.

She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation.

She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles.