Evan Ratliff, the co-host of the Longform Podcast, is a longtime contributor to Wired. His 2009 cover story “Vanish,” about his attempt to disappear and the public’s effort to find him, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, selected for The Best American Magazine Writing, and picked by the magazine as one of the best in stories in its history. He was a co-founder of both The Atavist Magazine (recently acquired by Automattic) and Pop-Up Magazine, and is the author of The Mastermind, the story of the world's most ambitious criminal cartel, coming in 2019 from Random House.