Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American feminist writer, professor, editor and commentator. She is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, and co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective. She perhaps best known as the writer of the New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014). She is also the author of the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and Hunger (forthcoming 2017). 2Early life and education Gay was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a family of Haitian descent. She attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She began her undergraduate studies at Yale University but dropped out in her junior year to pursue a relationship in Arizona. She completed her undergraduate degree in Nebraska and also earned an MA with an emphasis in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Gay earned a doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University in 2010. The title of her dissertation was, Subverting the subject position: toward a new discourse about students as writers and engineering students as technical communicator