Roxane Gay

Roxanne Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, among many other publications. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where she also writes the “Work Friend” column. 

She is the author of the books "Ayiti", "An Untamed State", the New York Times-bestselling "Bad Feminist" and "Hunger: A Memoir of My Body", as well as the nationally bestselling "Difficult Women" and "Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business."

She is also the author of the Eisner Award-winning "World of Wakanda" for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. She is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture, and a Y/A novel entitled "The Year I Learned Everything." In 2018, she won a Guggenheim fellowship. She also writes a newsletter, The Audacity.