She started her college career at Yale University before dropping out in her junior year to pursue a romantic relationship.
She went on to win the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series for her work as Marvel's first black woman author on Marvel's World of Wakanda. Yale University, Norwich University (BA), University of Nebraska, Lincoln (MA), Michigan Technological University (PhD)Īuthor and activist who made a name for herself with her critically acclaimed 2014 essay collection Bad Feminist. Gay is a New York Times opinion writer, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essay writer for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a non-profit literary collective and editor of Gay Mag, established in partnership with Medium. In 2018, she left Purdue to become a visiting professor at Yale University. Gay was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English. Gay is the author of the popular essay series Bad Feminist in the New York Times, collection of short stories Ayiti, novels An Untamed State, short stories collection Poor Women and Hunger memoir. Roxane Gay is an American writer, teacher, editor and social commentator.