Emily Witt is an American investigative journalist based in Brooklyn with a particular focus on modern dating from the feminine perspective.
[6] While in Mozambique on a Fulbright scholarship, she reported on Mozambican cinema for U.N. news agencies including IRIN and PlusNews.
Witt is a staff writer for The New Yorker,[7] and has written for numerous publications including The New York Times,[6] Men's Journal,[6] The New York Observer,[8] n+1,[9] the Oxford American,[6] the London Review of Books,[10] GQ, The Nation,[11] and Miami New Times.
"[1][12][13] Her book Future Sex explores how women see the dating world in the 21st century;[12][14] Publishers Weekly described her book as "an illuminating, hilarious account of sex and dating in the digital age, when hook-up culture and technology have vastly altered the romantic landscape.
[17] In Slate magazine in 2013, she noted that, in many classic novels, the subject of female sexuality was missing or subdued, in addition to having female characters being defined simply in opposition to dynamic male characters; when she turned to books written by men, she was turned off.