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Roxane Gay
Biography
Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial, 2014), the title essay of which appeared in VQR; the novel An Untamed State (Black Cat, 2014); and Ayiti (Artistically Declined Press, 2011). Her writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Short Stories, Best Sex Writing, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, the Nation, the Rumpus, and Salon, among others. She is the coeditor of PANK.
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