David Wolman is a contributing editor at WIRED and MATTER, and the author, most recently, of Firsthand: A Decade of Reportage. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Nature, and Outside. His long-form feature about Egypt’s 2011 uprising was a finalist for a 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting, and his profile of a currency counterfeiter won the 2012 Outstanding Article award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. David is a former Oregon Arts Commission fellow, Fulbright journalism fellow (Japan), and a graduate of Stanford University’s journalism program. His previous books are The End of Money, A Left-Hand Turn Around the World, and Righting the Mother Tongue. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children.Visit his website at www.david-wolman.com and follow him on Twitter at @davidwolman.
