While it is fascinating (and ironic) that such predators are able to function through perpetuating a belief in their unique expertise, my primary concern here is not the men to whom my essay refers, nor to the many names now spinning in the back of my head. What to do with all of these names? All of these stories? What to do with all of the hurt, the disrupted lives, the silenced voices and fury? “How did you find each other?” I asked her. The women in the group are all terrified of him. One woman told me there is an entire support group in her country based around the same celebrated poet and editor of a respected press. I’ve received these messages from the United States and beyond. She has held faculty positions at Eastern Illinois, Purdue, and Yale Universities.“It seems radical resistance may be as simple as noticing the truth.”īONNIE NADZAM: In the past few weeks since Tin House published my essay “ Experts in the Field,” I have received so many messages and emails, heard so many stories, and absorbed so many names-so far, all of men in perceived positions of power: editors, publishers, writers, teachers. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. Born in Omaha, she attended high school in New Hampshire at Phillips Exeter Academy and then studied at Yale University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln before completing a Ph.D. Gay has received the 2015 Pen Center USA Freedom to Write Award, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a 2018 Eisner Award, and two 2018 Lambda Literary awards. Katy Waldman in Slate says that Gay “filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as fractured, beautiful, and complex.” Publishers Weekly asserts, “Whatever her topic, Gay’s provocative essays stand out for their bravery, wit, and emotional honesty.” Writing in The New York Times, Carina Chocano regards Hunger as “an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.” In the New Republic, Rafia Zakaria calls Hunger “A work of staggering honesty” that is “poignantly told.” And in The Seattle Times, Moira Macdonald describes it as “a memoir that’s so brave, so raw it feels as if she’s entrusting you with her soul.” She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and from 2015 to 2018 was a columnist for Guardian US. Her stories and essays have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, and The Nation, and in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, and Best Sex Writing 2012. Gay is also the editor of Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (2018) and The Best American Short Stories, 2018 (2018). In a collaboration with poet Yona Harvey, Gay produced the Marvel comic book, Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2016). She is the author of two books of short stories, Ayiti (2011) and Difficult Women (2017) a novel, An Untamed State (2014) The New York Times best-selling essay collection, Bad Feminist (2014) and the provocative memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017). Roxane Gay’s fiction and nonfiction reflect “passionate opinions” and offer “willful provocations” about race, gender, and the human body. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of Detroit Public TV’s American Black Journal, and contributor to DPTV’s One Detroit series, Stephen Henderson, will provide introductory and closing remarks as part of this free, virtual event.
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Gay will deliver the Bauder Lecture via Facebook at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 23, 2021. The Marygrove Conservancy proudly presents feminist cultural critic Roxane Gay as the thirty-second guest in the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. Roxane Gay Reading and Discussion April 23, 2021