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She earned her undergraduate degree and graduate degrees from University of Nebraska. Moderator Roxane Gays writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space. She attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy. 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. In 2018, she won a Guggenheim fellowship.
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She is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture, and a YA novel entitled The Year I Learned Everything.
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Collected in the 2014 book Bad Feminist, they posit a world where (gasp) we can actually talk honestly about searching for identity, being less than perfect, and thinking hard on privilege and acceptance. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. Roxane Gay is a novelist and essayist whose online essays you've probably had forwarded to you by someone you adore. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Gay is the oldest of three children born to Haitian parents who arrived in the US when they were still in their teens. Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper's Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. įor more information on Roxane Gay, please visit her website at. Currently, she teaches writing at Eastern Illinois University.
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There will also be a book signing after the event.įor more information on the event, please visit the Cultural Enhancement series page at. She is the co-editor of PANK and essays editor for The Rumpus. Roxane Gay’s books will be available for purchase in the lobby before and after the event. Limited disabled parking is located in Potter Lot and around Van Meter Hall. Admission is free, and the event is swipeable. Gay’s keynote topic will be “Difficult Women & Bad Feminist.” This is a first-come, first-serve event co-sponsored by WKU’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Roxane Gay’s writing appears 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, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others.
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CST as part of WKU’s Cultural Enhancement Series. Author of Difficult Women and Marvel’s World of Wakanda, Roxane Gay will be speaking at Van Meter Hall on Thursday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m.