Annalee Newitz

Newitz changed personal pronouns from "she" to "they" in 2019.

After writing their first novel in 2017, Autonomous, for which they were nominated for the Nebula Award in 2018 for best novel, they wrote The Future of Another Timeline (2019), about which they said on their website: "It's about time travel and what it would be like to meet yourself as a teenager and have a really, really intense conversation with her about how fucked up your high school friends are."

In 2008, Gawker media asked Newitz to start a blog about science and science fiction, dubbed io9, for which they served as editor-in-chief from its founding until 2015 when it merged with Gizmodo, another Gawker media design and technology blog property; Newitz then took on the same leadership of the new venture. In November 2015, Newitz left Gawker to join Ars Technica, where they have been employed as Tech Culture Editor since December 2015.

Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002 to 2003, supporting them as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2005 they were a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007–2009 they were on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, a Hugo award-winning author and commentator, co-founded Other magazine.

Newitz is the child of two English teachers: their mother, Cynthia, at a high school, and their father, Marty, at a community college. Since 2000, they are in a relationship with Charlie Jane Anders with whom they created in March 2018 the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

Around 1999, they co-founded the Post-World War II American Literature and Culture Database in an attempt to chronicle modern literature and popular culture.

Newitz became a full-time writer and journalist in 1999 with an invitation to write a weekly column for the Metro Silicon Valley, a column which then ran in various venues for nine years. Newitz then served as the culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian from 2000 to 2004.

Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 they wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 they were the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 they became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015 they were Editor-in-Chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. As of 2019, they are a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.

Newitz was born in 1969, and grew up in Irvine, California. They graduated from Irvine High School, and in 1987 moved to Berkeley, California. In 1996, Newitz started doing freelance writing. In 1998, they completed a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on images of monsters, psychopaths, and capitalism in twentieth century American popular culture, the content of which later appeared in book form from Duke University Press.