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name: Susan M. Gaines
about: Susan M. Gaines is the author of the novels Accidentals and Carbon Dreams, and of the science book  Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History. Her stories and essays have appeared in the North American Review, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Nature, Best of the West, and other anthologies, and they have been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Raised in California, Gaines has spent much of her adult life abroad, most recently in Uruguay, where Accidentals is set, and in Germany, where she is a founding director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen. Gaines holds degrees in chemistry and oceanography. She is the recipient of the 2018 Suffrage Science Award and of an Art in Science Susan M. Gaines is the author of the novels Accidentals and Carbon Dreams, and of the science book  Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History. Her stories and essays have appeared in the North American Review, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Nature, Best of the West, and other anthologies, and they have been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Raised in California, Gaines has spent much of her adult life abroad, most recently in Uruguay, where Accidentals is set, and in Germany, where she is a founding director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen. Gaines holds degrees in chemistry and oceanography. She is the recipient of the 2018 Suffrage Science Award and of an Art in Science Fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study for her writing about science. ...more