Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. They are the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT and have written for Popular Science, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. They founded the science fiction website io9 and served as editor-in-chief from 2008–2015, and then became editor-in-chief at Gizmodo and tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Their book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the LA Times Book Prize in science. Their first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda award. Newitz’s newest novel, The Terraformers, has been called “a dazzling look at the distant future” by the Washington Post..