Nona Willis Aronowitz

Nona Willis Aronowitz (born 1984) is a New York-based writer and editor, whose work focuses on "women, sex, politics, and the economy".

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.

Aronowitz created and edited "The Slice", a features section at Talking Points Memo which began in 2015.

As of 2017, Aronowitz was the features editor for Splinter (previously Fusion) and writing the weekly newsletter "Fucking Through the Apocalypse".

In 2019, Aronowitz began writing a sex and relationships column for Teen Vogue.

Aronowitz is featured in the feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

In October 2019, it was announced that Aronowitz had signed a book deal with Plume for a book called Bad Sex, “a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism” that examines why, “despite the ubiquity of both sex and feminism, true sexual freedom remains elusive.”

Awards and recognition The one-shot magazine, Tomorrow, cofounded by Aronowitz, was nominated for an Utne Media Award for general excellence.