Nona Willis Aronowitz
writer
Nona Willis Aronowitz (born 1984) is a New York-based writer and editor, whose work focuses on "women, sex, politics, and the economy". She was the sex and love advice columnist for Teen Vogue from 2019 to 2023. She is the author of Bad Sex, a 2022 memoir published by Plume-Penguin Random House, and served as an award-winning editor of collections of her mother's works. Aronowitz has worked for NBC, NPR, and other news venues, and her writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Guardian, and other venues.
Early life and education
Aronowitz was born in 1984, and is the daughter of the late Ellen Willis, a journalist, writer on feminist and cultural issues, and NYU faculty member, and the late Stanley Aronowitz, a blue-collar organizer, writer, and CUNY faculty member.
She graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in American studies in 2006.
Career
Aronowitz has been a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, worked as an education and poverty reporter at NBC News Digital, worked as an associate editor at GOOD magazine, and has written for various publications.
Writing and editing corpus
In 2009 Nona and Emma Bee Bernstein's book Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, about their drive across America talking with women about feminism and being women, was published.
In 2013, Aronowitz cofounded Tomorrow, a one-shot magazine about "creative destruction".
Aronowitz edited a collection of her mother’s work entitled The Essential Ellen Willis, which appeared in 2014.
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