Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is a prominent American journalist, author, and editor with a deep interest in writing about science fiction and nonfiction topics. They have gained significant recognition for their stand-alone novels, which have helped establish their reputation in the literary world. Newitz has held various prestigious positions in the media industry, including a Knight Fellowship in Science Journalism from MIT and a stint as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Newitz has contributed to several periodicals such as Wired, Popular Science, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Between 1999 and 2008, they wrote a weekly column called Techsploitation and served as the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2002, Newitz co-founded the magazine Other, which published triannually until 2007. From 2008 to 2015, they worked as the Editor in Chief of io9, a science fiction blog owned by Gawker, and later at Gizmodo, the design and technology blog of Gawker. Since 2016, Newitz has been serving as the Tech Culture Editor of Ars Technica.

Annalee Newitz was born in 1969 in Irvine, California, and spent their formative years growing up in the city. They completed their high school education at Irvine High School and moved to Berkeley in California in 1987. In 1996, Newitz began their freelance writing career and later earned a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Their doctoral dissertation, which focused on the image of psychopaths, capitalism, and monsters in the 20th century popular culture of America, was later published as a book from the Duke University Press.