Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is a New York Times bestselling author, professor, editor, and cultural critic born in Omaha, Nebraska to Haitian immigrant parents. She wrote Black Panther: World of Wakanda for Marvel (2016–2017), becoming one of the first two Black women to author a Marvel series. The series won a 2018 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series and a 2018 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book. She is the author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, An Untamed State, and many other works, and is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.