Nona Willis Aronowitz (born 1984) is a New York-based writer and editor, whose work focuses on "women, sex, politics, and the economy".[2][3] 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.[2][3]
Early life and education
Aronowitz was born in 1984,[citation needed] 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.[4][5][6]
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.[9][10]
Aronowitz edited a collection of her mother’s work entitled The Essential Ellen Willis, which appeared in 2014.[13] She also edited Out of the Vinyl Deeps (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), the first collection of Ellen Willis's music reviews and essays.[14]
Aronowitz created and edited "The Slice", a features section at Talking Points Memo which began in 2015.[15][16]
As of 2017, Aronowitz was the features editor for Splinter (previously Fusion) and writing the weekly newsletter "Fucking Through the Apocalypse".[17][15][18][19]
In 2019, Aronowitz began writing a sex and relationships column for Teen Vogue.[20]
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.” [23][24]
^ abLoughran, Sean (August 10, 2022). "In Conversation With Nona Willis Aronowitz [introductory biosketch]". AvocadoDiaries.com. Retrieved August 13, 2022. Nona Willis Aronowitz is our guest on AD's In Conversation With today. She's an award-winning editor, writer, and author based in New York. In addition to her biweekly sex and love advice column for Teen Vogue, Nona's work has been published by a number of other outlets including The New York Times, The Cut, ELLE, VICE, and Playboy.
^ abcdeWMC Staff (August 13, 2022). "Nona Willis Aronowitz". Retrieved August 13, 2022. Nona Willis Aronowitz is an author, reporter, and editor who writes about women, sex, politics, and the economy. She's the features editor for Splinter, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Playboy, and Rookie, among many others. In the past, she's worked for Talking Points Memo, NBC, NPR, Good Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. She writes a regular newsletter called F*cking Through the Apocalypse. / With Emma Bee Bernstein, she is the co-author of the book Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, a roadtrip book of essays and photography about the state of young feminism across the United States. She's also the editor of an award-winning anthology of her mother Ellen Willis's rock criticism, called Out of the Vinyl Deeps, as well as a more comprehensive collection of her work, The Essential Ellen Willis, which won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism.
