Joanne McNeil is a writer and editor. She is the author of the novel Wrong Way, named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker and Esquire, and Lurking: How a Person Became a User, a personal history of the internet. She was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer in 2015. McNeil has been a resident at Eyebeam and a recipient of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She has been an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation and a recipient of a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Dissent, The Yale Review, frieze, and MIT Technology Review. Her column “Speculations,” on film, visual art, science fiction, and the future, appears in Filmmaker magazine. She is working on another nonfiction book, Too Early for the Future, on the practice and history of speculating on the future.

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