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She teaches English at Purdue University.
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Her previous books include Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and An Untamed State. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but the fee is non-refundable if accepted elsewhere. Roxane Gay is a novelist and short story writer. Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered. The winner of our contest will receive $1,000, publication in Indiana Review, and a scholarship to attend the 75th Annual Indiana University Writers’ Conference, an additional $600 value.Īll entries are considered for publication. Though Gay’s memoir centers her body, food, and self-image, she also confronts society’s fatphobiathe world’s unwillingness to accept fat people as they. Reading Fee: $20 USD-Includes a one-year subscription Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017) is a memoir by Roxane Gay that addresses the emotional, physical, and psychological effects of sexual assaultand how they tie into self-image. Her book Hunger will be published by Harper in 2016. Her novel, An Untamed State, was published by Grove Atlantic and her essay collection, Bad Feminist, was published by Harper Perennial, both in 2014. Chapter 2 begins: The story of my body is not a story of triumph. The first four chapters start with a variation on This is the story of my body. She is the co-editor of PANK and essays editor for The Rumpus. culture June/July/Aug 2017 The Body Politic Roxane Gay’s heartfelt new memoir Hunger puts its author’s struggle to write it front and center. Roxane Gay’s 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, The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy culture blog, and many others.