When it comes to astute and unvarnished observations about pressing issues of our time, Roxane Gay never fails to deliver. Over the past decade, the writer, professor, editor, social commentator, and New York Times contributing opinion writer has gained international recognition for her sharp, subversive output across genres, including her short story collection Difficult Women (2017); her novel An Untamed State (2014); her memoir, Hunger (2017); and her New York Times best-selling essay collection, Bad Feminist (2014). As is evident across her writing, Gay has a rare knack for both exposing raw truths of the society we live in and—as with her graphic novel The Sacrifice of Darkness (2020) and the comic book series and Marvel spin-off World of Wakanda (2016-2017)—providing imaginative havens to escape to.