Founder & Editor
The Atavist
Evan Ratliff is the co-founder and editor of The Atavist (www.atavist.net), a digital publishing house producing narrative, multimedia nonfiction. Launched in 2011, The Atavist and its software publishing platform have been featured everywhere from the New York Times to Gizmodo as a new model for digital storytelling. As a writer, Evan is the author of "Lifted," the story of one of the history's most audacious heists, and his work appears regularly in Wired, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and many other publications. He is the co-author of “Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World” (HarperCollins, 2005), about innovation and counterterrorism. A past finalist for the National Magazine Award, his writing on science, technology, crime, privacy, and terrorism has appeared in numerous anthologies, including “The Best of Technology Writing” 2006 and 2010, “The Best American Magazine Writing 2010,” and “The Best American Nonrequired Writing 2010.”