Annalee Newitz is a journalist, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. She has been published in Wired and Popular Science, served as editor-in-chief of io9, and is currently 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, and her next novel Autonomous is coming out in September 2017. Newitz holds a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.