Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times’ best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist, as well as the short story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, the short story collection Difficult Women, and the memoir Hunger.
Roxane Gay Children: Does Roxane Gay Have Kids?
Gay is bisexual. In October 2019, she became engaged to artist and writer Debbie Millman. In August 2020, Gay revealed that they had eloped. There is no information about him having kids.
On January 29, 2020, Gay Magazine published an essay alleging that Kate Elizabeth Russell’s then-forthcoming novel My Dark Vanessa shared “eerie story similarities” to Wendy C. Ortiz’s memoir, calling My Dark Vanessa “fictionalized, sensationalized.”
Ortiz’s memoir and My Dark Vanessa share themes of intergenerational sexual abuse by a teacher, yet the Associated Press has reported that “[r]eviewers who looked at both books saw no evidence of plagiarism,” though the Gay Magazine article ran with an illustration of one artist copying the work of another.