Maria Konnikova (Twitter: @mkonnikova) is a writer living in New York City, where she works on an assortment of non-fiction and fiction. Her first book, “Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes,” will be published by Viking in January 2013. She writes the Literally Psyched blog for Scientific American, where she explores the intersection of literature and psychology, and formerly wrote the popular psychology blog Artful Choice for Big Think. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Observer, Slate, Scientific American, and Scientific American Mind, among other publications. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and is currently a doctoral candidate in Psychology at Columbia University.