Roxane Gay is the author of the novel An Untamed State, the essay collection Bad Feminist, and Ayiti, a multi-genre collection. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming 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, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. She is also the co-editor of [PANK] magazine. Her newest title Difficult Women was published by Grove Press in January, 2017, and other upcoming books include How To Be Heard to be published in April, 2017 by Simon & Schuster/TED, and Hunger: A Memoir of My Body coming from Harper in June, 2017.