ANNALEE NEWITZ is an American journalist, editor, and author of fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from MIT, and has written for Popular Science, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. She founded the science fiction website io9 and served as editor in chief from 2008 to 2015, and subsequently was editor in chief at Gizmodo and tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Her book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science. Her first novel, Autonomous, won a Lambda Literary Award. You can sign up for email updates here.