Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is an American science journalist and novelist. They co-founded the science-fiction site io9 in 2008 and edited it until it merged with Gizmodo, later working as a tech culture editor at Ars Technica and writing for the New York Times.

Their debut novel Autonomous won the Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus awards; it was followed by The Future of Another Timeline and The Terraformers. Their nonfiction includes Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, on how humans might survive a mass extinction, Four Lost Cities, and Stories Are Weapons.

With Charlie Jane Anders, Newitz co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, which won the Hugo Award for Best Fancast.