Katherine Dykstra is the author of What Happened to Paula, which was a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a People magazine Best Summer Read, and one of CrimeReads’ Top Ten True Crime Books of 2021. Named an “artist to watch” by Creative Capital, she has had essays published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, and Real Simple, and her work has twice been included in the Notables section of The Best American Essays. She is currently at work on a novel that takes place in a maternity home in the 1960s.