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 science writing has been recognized with fellowships from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, 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. In 2023-24, she was a Spencer Journalism Fellow at Columbia University. Susan has taught creative nonfiction at Bard College and mathematics at Dartmouth College.

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She 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 mentors students, enjoys long walks on the shore, and grows hydroponic vegetables in a year-round garden. 

 

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