[1] In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her article on the risk of a major earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.

[6] After graduation Schulz planned to take a year off before pursuing a Ph.D.; she lived in Portland, Oregon briefly before moving to Costa Rica with her sister's family.

[7] In 2015, Schulz became a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has written about everything from the legacy of an early Muslim immigrant in Wyoming[8] to the radical life of civil rights activist Pauli Murray[9] to Henry David Thoreau's Walden[10] to brown marmorated stinkbugs.

[11] In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and a National Magazine Award for “The Really Big One,”[12] her story on seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest.

[14] In 2016, Schulz won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Magazine Award for "The Really Big One,"[15] an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest.