![]() Bad Feminist, her 2014 collection of essays, was a New York Times bestseller. Known for being shy and somewhat reserved in person, the 45-year-old English professor has, in the past 10 years, amassed a powerful body of work including a novel (An Untamed State) and two short story collections (Ayiti and Difficult Women). Her voice is measured, thoughtful and serious. Her video function is not turned on, so I can’t see her deep brown eyes or six-foot-three frame. Gay is in Iceland on a “top secret” work project which she can’t talk about But that’s fine because Gay, a woman known for radical honesty and original thinking in her writing around queerness and race and feminism, has plenty of other things to discuss. The US feminist author, a hero to many millennial women and to plenty of us in an older demographic, says she is grateful to be on a hiatus from her home country, where there is, as she puts it, “a startling lack of leadership” when it comes to the pandemic. Roxane Gay is on a zoom call from Iceland on her last day of quarantine.
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