John Sundman has worked in smallholder agricultural development in Senegal (West Africa), as a technical writer and manager of software engineering at 15+ startups in Silicon Valley, Boston and NYC; as a long-haul truck driver, construction laborer, and forklift operator. He was, for ten years, a firefighter on Martha’s Vineyard. His novels and essays explore the impacts of biological and digital technologies—including genetic manipulation and AI—on individuals and societies, and he has given invited talks on Art, Ethics and Synthetic Biology at the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere.
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John Sundman 
