Susan D’Agostino is a mathematician and science writer whose stories have been published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Scientific American, WIRED, Quanta, BBC, Nature, Financial Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, and other leading newspapers and magazines. She is a columnist at Inside Higher Ed, the most-read independent news source on higher education in the United States, where she writes The Public Scholar. 

Susan’s book-in-progress, How Math Will Save Your Life, will be published by W.W. Norton. Her earlier book, How To Free Your Inner Mathematician (Oxford University Press, 2020), received the Mathematical Association of America’s Euler Book Prize for an exceptionally well-written book with a positive impact on the public’s view of math. 

Susan’s writing has been recognized with fellowships from Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, National Association of Science Writers, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation in Germany, Mila–Quebec AI Institute in Canada, and Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Prior to pivoting her career to public science literacy, Susan was a tenured mathematics professor, for which she earned the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award. She has since taught creative nonfiction at Bard College.

Susan earned a PhD in mathematics at Dartmouth College, an MA in science writing at Johns Hopkins, and a BA in anthropology at Bard College. She lives on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Sign up for her free monthly newsletter.