This discussion will take place on the West Hollywood Park Stage. \;
\nRoxane Gay is an a ward-winning author\, editor\, professor\, and cultural critic. The New Yo rk Times bestselling author has written six critically acclaimed books\, i ncluding the instant classic Bad Feminist (2014)\, the memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017)\, which The New Y ork Times hailed as &ldquo\;luminous&hellip\;intellectually rigorous and d eeply moving\,&rdquo\; and the essay collection Op inions: A Decade of Arguments\, Criticism\, and Minding Other People&rsquo \;s Business (2024)\, which Booklist called &ldquo\;a must-read for no t only fans of Gay&rsquo\;s work\, but for everyone interested in reading intellectual\, accessible\, and important takes on timely topics.&rdquo\;& nbsp\;
\nRoxane has also authored two short story collections\, Difficult Women (2017) and Ayiti (2018)\, the novel An Untamed State (2014)\, and edited multiple acclaimed and best-selling antholo gies including The Portable Feminist Reader for Penguin C lassics (2025)\, Not That Bad: Dispat ches from Rape Culture (2019)\, and The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (2020). Roxane was the first Black woman to lead a Marvel title\, writing the comic series World of Wakanda. \;
\nA Guggenheim Fellowship rec ipient\, Roxane is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times\, where she wrote the Work Friend column. Her work can also be found in The Guardian\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Harper's Bazaar\, McSweeney's and m any other publications. She holds an endowed professorship at Rutgers Univ ersity and has also taught at Purdue and Yale. She is currently at work on film and television projects\, and runs her own publishing imprint\, Roxa ne Gay Books.
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