
Roxane Gay
Author · 20 books
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. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. Her newsletter, The Audacity, where she also hosts The Audacious Book Club, can be found at audacity.substack.com.
Series
Books

Difficult Women
2017

The Best American Short Stories 2018
2018

Not That Bad
Dispatches from Rape Culture
2018

The Banks Box Set
2019
The Year I Learned Everything
2021

Zombies
More Recent Dead
2014

An Untamed State
2014

Urgent, Unheard Stories
2015

Opinions
A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
2023

Kink
Stories
2021

Bad Feminist
Essays
2014

The Sacrifice of Darkness
2020

Waveform
Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women
2016

How to Be Heard
2024

Writing Into the Wound
Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language
2021

Graceful Burdens
2020

Ayiti
2011

Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body
2017

Do The Work
A guide to understanding power and creating change.
2024
no ordinary love
2024