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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. She is the author of the novel An Untamed State, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction; the essay collection Bad Feminist; Ayiti, a multi-genre collection; the memoir Hunger; and a comic book in Marvel’s Black Panther series.


Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Roxane Gay on the Importance of Expanding and Complicating Our Understanding of Contemporary Feminist Thought
March 25, 2025  By Roxane Gay
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See the covers of the first two books from Roxane Gay’s new imprint, Roxane Gay Books.

January 17, 2023  By Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

“Clearly, some years, cinematic offerings are more
encouraging than others.”
January 31, 2020  By Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

On Selecting This Year's 20 Best American Short Stories
October 3, 2018  By Roxane Gay
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“Sweet on the Tongue”

Read a New Story from Roxane Gay's Collection, Ayiti
June 20, 2018  By Roxane Gay
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Roxane Gay on Empathy, Race, and the Work of Alice Childress

In Praise of a Mid-Century Classic
January 24, 2017  By Roxane Gay
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: James Baldwin vs. Bram Stoker

Judge Roxane Gay Picks the Winner!
April 1, 2016  By Roxane Gay
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Gustave Flaubert vs. Kate Chopin

Roxane Gay Chooses a Winner
March 31, 2016  By Roxane Gay
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