Dana Mackenzie

DANA MACKENZIE holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University and spent more than a decade teaching at Duke University and Kenyon College before transitioning to science writing in the late 1990s. His books include The Book of Why and The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be.

Mackenzie won the 2015 Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America for his article on Apollonian gaskets. He has contributed to Science, Discover, Scientific American, New Scientist, and Smithsonian.

Dana lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Dana Mackenzie’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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