1. Thursday
March 24, 2016
5:30 p.m.
Kemper Auditorium
5 Chapel Ave.
Andover, Mass.
Dessert will be served.
Free and open to the public
“An Evening with Roxane Gay” is made possible by an Abbot Academy Association grant, continuing Abbot’s tradition of boldness,
innovation, and caring. This event is brought to campus by Women’s Forum and cosponsored by the Office of Community and
Multicultural Development in coordination with the Brace Center for Gender Studies and Department of English.
T
hrough her subtle and discursive nonfiction and fiction
writing, best-selling author Roxane Gay interrogates
the multiplicity of identity and themes of pop culture;
her work varies from incisive social commentary to intimate
personal confessions. Slate described Gay as an author “who
filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as
fractured, beautiful, and complex.”
Gay is the author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist,
and the soon-to-be-released Hunger and is coeditor of PANK,
which publishes bright and promising writers and poets. 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 other publications.
“Let this be the year of Roxane Gay,”
declaredTimemagazinein2014followingtherelease
ofherdebutnovel,AnUntamedState.Sincethen,she
hasonlycontinuedtoriseasafeministicon.
ROXANE GAY
A N E V E N I N G W I T H