Roxane co-hosts Hear to Slay with Tressie McMillan Cottom – a podcast with an intersectional perspective on celebrity, culture, politics, art, life, love, and more. Roxane was the first black woman to ever write for Marvel, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda. In 2020, Roxane released Graceful Burdens, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape, as well as a graphic novel called The Sacrifice of Darkness. In 2018, she released Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, a valuable and searing anthology it has been described as “essential reading” and a “call to arms” by its readers. The Los Angeles Times says of the collection, “There’s a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play dark fables and twisted morality tales sit alongside the contemporary and the realistic…”

She also released her collection of short stories, Difficult Women. In 2017, Roxane released her bestselling memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which was called “Luminous…intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” by the New York Times. NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing Roxane. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism.

Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered.

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