Author
Roxane Gay
Writer, editor and cultural critic
Roxane Gay writes essays, fiction and criticism, and made her name with Bad Feminist, a collection that gave a generation permission to hold feminist politics without being consistent about it. Hunger, her memoir about her body and the assault that reshaped it, is the more difficult and probably the better book.
She is a relentless reader and one of the more consequential taste-makers in American letters, running a book club, an imprint and a newsletter, and championing writers well before the mainstream reaches them. Her recommendations carry weight precisely because she is willing to be unsparing about work she admires.
