Roxane Gay Books

Writer. Editor. Professor. Publisher. Cultural critic. Roxane Gay is the author of several bestselling books including Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Difficult Women. She is also the editor of an eponymous imprint at Grove Atlantic, and of the recently published anthology The Portable Feminist Reader. Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, is a winner of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community from the National Book Foundation, among other awards.