Seriously, is there anything she can't do? But she's also got a second novel forthcoming, The Year I Learned Everything, and her essays will be featured in Kelly Jensen's anthology, Feminism for the Real World - both coming in 2017. There is, of course, her memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, which we'll talk more about in just a minute. If that weren't enough - and it isn't - Gay has even more great stuff lined up for 20. So it's no real surprise that Gay won PEN Center USA's Freedom to Write award in 2015, because, oh by the way: she fights for women, for the LGBT community, people of colour and anyone else who’s disenfranchised, who’s made to feel weak or small, and does so with passion and dedication. In 2014, she published two acclaimed books: Bad Feminist and An Untamed State. She's one of the founding editors of PANK, a contributing editor at Literary Hub, and the 'runner' of The Butter. Pull out your TBR lists, because this book is the body-positive journey everyone should read.įirst off, I'm pretty much convinced that Roxane Gay is secretly Wonder Woman. Now we've got Roxane Gay's memoir, Hunger, to look forward to in Summer 2016. A good many fat-girl memoirs have hit store shelves in the last few years, including Jes Baker's Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls and Brittany Gibbons' Fat Girl Walking.
