Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay (2014)

Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974 in Omaha , Nebraska , USA ) is an American author, editor and English professor of Haitian descent.

Life

Roxane Gay began her studies at Yale University , but gave up her third year studies to move to Arizona for a relationship . Eventually she resumed her studies, graduating with a degree in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . She then did her PhD at Michigan Technological University . After completing her doctorate in 2010, Gay initially taught English as an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University until 2014 . From 2014 to 2018 she taught creative discs at Purdue University in Indiana as a private lecturer . In the summer semester of 2018, Gay worked as a visiting professor at Yale University.

In addition to her career as an English professor, Gay works as a writer of short stories, novels and essays, all of which have been published in book form. She first gained greater fame in English-speaking countries in 2014 with the publication of a collection of essays entitled Bad Feminist , which became a bestseller on the New York Times list . Gay is also an anthology editor and commentator in newspapers such as the Guardian and the New York Times.

Themes of her work are pop culture , feminism , ancestry, sexual violence , weight and the female body.

Awards

2015: Pen Center USA Freedom to Write Award
2018: Eisner Award in the Best Completed Series category for Black Panther: World of Wakanda together with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Alitha E. Martinez
2018: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in General Nonfiction
2018: Lambda Literary Award in the Bisexual Nonfiction category for hunger
2019: Nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in the LGBTQ Anthology — Nonfiction category for her anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
2019: Inclusion in the New Daughters of Africa anthology by Margaret Busby

Publications (selection)

Ayiti . Artistically Declined Press, New York / Oregon 2011, ISBN 978-1-4507-7671-4 .
Bad feminist . Harper Perennial, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-228272-9 .
- Bad Feminist: Essays . Translation into German by Anne Spielmann. btb Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-71781-1 .
To Untamed State . Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-8021-2251-3 .
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body . Harper, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-06-236259-9 .
- HUNGER: The story of my body . Translation into German by Anne Spielmann. btb Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75814-2 .
Difficult women . Grove Atlantic, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-8021-2539-2 .
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. Harper Perennial, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-06-241351-2 .

Web links

Commons : Roxane Gay - collection of images, videos and audio files

Interview with Roxane Gay: "Being fat is not a sign of having failed" in ZEIT Online , June 10, 2019
Roxane Gay on feminism and #MeToo: "It was a single shitshow" in TAZ , July 15, 2019

Individual evidence

^ Molly McArdle: The Rise of Roxane Gay. In: Brooklyn Mag. February 22, 2017, accessed February 18, 2019 (American English).
↑ ^a ^b Kira Cochrane: Roxane Gay: meet the bad feminist. In: The Guardian. Retrieved August 2, 2014, April 9, 2019 (UK English).

↑ ^a ^b Roxane Gay. In: Purdue University College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (American English).

↑ ^a ^b Dave Bangert: Why Roxane Gay, best-selling 'Bad Feminist,' is leaving Purdue. In: Journal & Courier. November 18, 2018, accessed February 18, 2019 .

^ Courtney Kocak: Q&A: Roxane Gay on Writing and Rejection. In: Bustle. October 9, 2014, accessed February 18, 2019 .

^ Roxane Gay: Roxane Gay column. In: The Guardian. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .

^ Roxane Gay: Column. In: The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (American English).

^ Adrienne Green: Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' Is a Searing Memoir About Weight and Trauma. In: The Atlantic. June 13, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (American English).

↑ 2010-Present. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .

↑ Ella Boureau: 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. July 31, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019 .

↑ 31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. June 4, 2019, accessed July 21, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gay, Roxane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author, editor, and English professor of Haitian descent
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Omaha , Nebraska , USA

[1] Molly McArdle: The Rise of Roxane Gay. In: Brooklyn Mag. February 22, 2017, accessed February 18, 2019 (American English).

[:2-2] Kira Cochrane: Roxane Gay: meet the bad feminist. In: The Guardian. Retrieved August 2, 2014, April 9, 2019 (UK English).

[:0-3] Roxane Gay. In: Purdue University College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (American English).

[:1-4] Dave Bangert: Why Roxane Gay, best-selling 'Bad Feminist,' is leaving Purdue. In: Journal & Courier. November 18, 2018, accessed February 18, 2019 .

[5] Courtney Kocak: Q&A: Roxane Gay on Writing and Rejection. In: Bustle. October 9, 2014, accessed February 18, 2019 .

[6] Roxane Gay: Roxane Gay column. In: The Guardian. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .

[7] Roxane Gay: Column. In: The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (American English).

[8] Adrienne Green: Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' Is a Searing Memoir About Weight and Trauma. In: The Atlantic. June 13, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (American English).

[9] 2010-Present. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .

[10] Ella Boureau: 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. July 31, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019 .

[11] 31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners. In: Lambda Literary. June 4, 2019, accessed July 21, 2019 .