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Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay's writing appears or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Cream City Review, Annalemma, McSweeney's (online), The Rumpus, and others. She is the co-editor of PANK, a regular contributor to HTMLGIANT, an assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, and can be found at http://www.roxanegay.com. Her first collection, Ayiti, will be released in 2011.

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Average rating: 4.47 · 210 ratings · 56 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Ayiti 4.37 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Susie Bright (Goodreads Author), Joan Price (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Pear Noir! (#3) by Daniel Casebeer (Editor), Lily Hoang, Rich Ives 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	A Metazen Christmas by Frank Hinton (Editor), Mike Young (Goodreads Author), Jordan Castro (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Year One by Danny Goodman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karen Eileen Sikola, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé 4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Stoked Volume I by J.A. Tyler (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Daniel Bailey (Goodreads Author), Mike Young (Goodreads Author) 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Sententia #1 by Ryan W. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Drew Kalbach (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Sententia #2 by Ryan W. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shaindel Beers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Red Lightbulbs Issue 5 by Russ Woods (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mason Johnson (Contributor), Alexis Pope (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Re:Telling by William Walsh (Editor), Michael Martone, Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Marry or Burn: Stories

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

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Roxane made a comment on her review of Possessing the Secret of Joy "I didn't realize Walker has a brand of black literature. I think she has a singular, and very powerful voice and I'm quite a fan of her work. The lang...more "
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The ways in which this book is not good are many. The prose is really overblown. There are some descriptions that truly baffled me with their excessive ornament. Rarely does the story seem authentic. The violence doesn't so much shock as seem... rote...more
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