Matthew Shindell - Bio

Matthew Shindell lives and writes in San Diego, California where he has recently begun work on a PhD in History of Science at UCSD. Shindell holds two degrees in biology from Arizona State University, both focusing on the social and historical dimensions of science. His work has involved the interplay of 19th Century political movements and concepts of heredity, and more recently the role of traditional geologic exploration and mapping in space-age planetary science on the Moon and Mars. Shindell holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.