Katie Hafner is a journalist and author. She is host and coexecutive producer of the Lost Women of Science podcast. Hafner writes frequently for The New York Times and The Washington Post and is the author of a memoir, novel, and six non-fiction books, including Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (with Matthew Lyon), The Well: Love, Death, and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community, and Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (with John Markoff). Her first novel, The Boys, was published in July 2022.
