Considered by The Guardian to be “America’s brightest new essayest,” Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator. She is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist, as well as the short story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, the short story collection Difficult Women, and the memoir Hunger. She is also a cultural critic and UNL English Alumna. Free and open to the public. Presented by The Reading Series, Department of English