Susan D’Agostino is a mathematician and science writer whose stories have published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Scientific American, WIRED, Quanta, BBC, Nature, National Public Radio, Financial Times, and other leading newspapers and magazines. 

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How To Free Your Inner Mathematician (Oxford University Press, 2020), Susan's first book, 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. 

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Susan's writing has been recognized with fellowships from Oxford University's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, National Association of Science Writers, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation in Germany, and Mila–Quebec AI Institute in Canada. In 2023-24, she was a fellow at the Columbia University Graduate 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.

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Susan earned a PhD in mathematics at Dartmouth College, an MA in science writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in anthropology at Bard College. She lives and works on the New Hampshire seacoast where she enjoys long walks along the rocky shore and cultivates a year-round hydroponic garden. 

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​Susan is represented by Marissa Koors at Curious Minds literary agency. She is currently working on a math book for a popular audience.