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Annalee Newitz
American journalist and author
Annalee Newitz, born on May 7, 1969, is an American journalist, editor, and author known for her work in both fiction and nonfiction. She served as the culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 2000 to 2004, where she contributed to the publication's coverage of cultural issues in the Bay Area.1
Newitz began her career in journalism with a syndicated column called Techsploitation, which ran from 1999 to 2008. She later became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded Other magazine. From 2008 to 2015, she was the founding editor of io9, a blog focused on science and science fiction, and subsequently served as editor-in-chief of Gizmodo until 2015. Currently, she is a tech culture editor at Ars Technica and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.123
In addition to her editorial roles, Newitz is an accomplished author. Her first novel, Autonomous, published in 2017, won the Lambda Literary Award. She has also written several notable nonfiction works, including Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.14 Newitz holds a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley and has received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT.125
