Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Biggest Bluff. Her previous books are the bestsellers The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Maria is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker whose writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Maria’s writing has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. She graduated from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University.