Roxane Gay
Writer, professor and social commentator
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor and social commentator. She wrote the essay collection Bad Feminist.
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American Born 1974 in Omaha, United States
About Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay contributes opinion writing to The New York Times, and her work has also been published in McSweeney's and Tin House. She founded Tiny Hardcore Press and has worked as an editor for The Rumpus. Her books include the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times best seller, the novel An Untamed State and the memoir Hunger. She has also written World of Wakanda for Marvel. Gay holds the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, which she joined in 2022. Before that she taught at Eastern Illinois University and Purdue University, and was a visiting professor at Yale University.