She is also at work on television and film projects including a film adaptation of Hunger and a television adaptation of her comic book The Banks.
She also pens the “work friend” advice column for the New York Times, and in 2021 she began her own publishing imprint with Grove Atlantic, “Roxane Gay Books.” She has several books forthcoming including How to Be Heard, on writing advice and how to use your voice as well as The Year I Learned Everything, a YA novel. Roxane hosts the Webby Award winning podcast The Roxane Gay Agenda where she has interesting conversations with interesting people. Roxane Gay’s new memoir, Hunger, deals with her rape, her overeating, and her struggles with her public and private identities.
Roxane was the first black woman to lead a Marvel title, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda. In 2020, Roxane released the short story Graceful Burdens, as an Amazon Single, as well as a graphic novel called The Sacrifice of Darkness. In 2018, she released Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, a valuable and searing anthology that has been described as “essential reading” and a “call to arms” by its readers. The Los Angeles Times says of the collection, “There’s a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play dark fables and twisted morality tales sit alongside the contemporary and the realistic…” She also released her collection of short stories, Difficult Women. In 2017, Roxane released her bestselling memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which was called “Luminous…intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” by the New York Times.
NPR named it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, World of Wakanda, Hunger, Not That Bad. Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing Roxane. List of books recommended by Roxane Gay, I want a tiny baby elephant. Garcia wields narrative power, cultivating true and.
immigration system told through five generations of Cuban refugees.' - Amazon Book Review 'Of Women of Salt is a fierce and powerful debut. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity. Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist ' One of the most buzzed about debuts of the spring, Of Women and Salt explores the U.S. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered.