Thursday March 24, 2016

5:30 p.m.

Kemper Auditorium5 Chapel Ave.

Andover, Mass.

Dessert will be served.

Free and open to the public

“An Evening with Roxane Gay” is made possible by an Abbot Academy Association grant, continuing Abbot’s tradition of boldness, innovation, and caring. This event is brought to campus by Women’s Forum and cosponsored by the Office of Community and

Multicultural Development in coordination with the Brace Center for Gender Studies and Department of English.

Through her subtle and discursive nonfiction and fiction writing, best-selling author Roxane Gay interrogates the multiplicity of identity and themes of pop culture;

her work varies from incisive social commentary to intimate personal confessions. Slate described Gay as an author “who filters every observation through her deep sense of the world as fractured, beautiful, and complex.”

Gay is the author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and the soon-to-be-released Hunger and is coeditor of PANK, which publishes bright and promising writers and poets. Her 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, and other publications.

“Let this be the year of Roxane Gay,” declared Time magazine in 2014 following the release

of her debut novel, An Untamed State. Since then, she

has only continued to rise as a feminist icon.

ROXANE GAYA N E V E N I N G W I T H