Roxane Gay is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women, and the New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.