Biography

Dana Mackenzie is a free-lance science writer based in Santa Cruz, California. He received a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1983, and taught mathematics for several years at Duke University and Kenyon College. In 1996 he decided to change careers and become a writer. After studying in the Science Communication Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he did an editorial internship at American Scientist in the summer of 1997. Since then he has been a full-time freelancer, writing for such publications as Science and Discover and continuing as a contributing editor to American Scientist. His first book, The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be, was published by Wiley in April 2003.

Associated Articles

Science Observer
	A Sine on the Road to Mecca
	The Proof Is in the Packing
	A Megalith for the Millennium
	Tornado Rising
	Addicted to Logic