Susan D’Agostino is a mathematician and writer whose stories have been published in The Atlantic, Scientific American, WIRED, Quanta, BBC, Nature, Financial Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and other leading media.

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 has long mentored emerging and established writers. She served as an editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago and an editor-in-chief of a book of articles and essays by mathematicians. She is currently a columnist at Inside Higher Ed, where she writes The Public Scholar, which helps academics translate complex ideas for broad audiences. Prior to pivoting her career to writing, 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 was a Spencer Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has received writing fellowships from Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, the National Association of Science Writers, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation in Germany, and the Mila–Quebec AI Institute in Canada. She is represented by Marissa Koors at Curious Minds. 

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.