B a d F e m i n i s t

Roxane GayEastern Illinois University

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

6:30 pm

Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 20195 Cushing StreetPembroke Campus

Brown University Department of English

Nonfiction Writing Program presents

This event is made possible by Shane Family Program Fund Salomon Grant (Dean of the College)

Roxane Gay, Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, will present a talk and readingand will offer pointers on how to write with passion, care and occasional humor from imperfect opinionsand conflicting principles--how a writer can be a "bad" feminist, a "good" citizen, and a “committed” culturalparticipant. She will read nonfiction and fiction from Ayiti, a collection of short works on Haiti and theHaitian diaspora, and her forthcoming essay collection Bad Feminist.

Professor Gay’s writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, BestSex Writing 2012, The New York Times Book Review, Salon, and The Wall Street Journal,among others. Her novel, An Untamed State, will be published by Grove Atlantic and heressay collection, Bad Feminist, will be published by Harper Perennial, both in 2014.

www.brown.edu/english/nonfiction-eventsCo-sponsored by the Department of Literary Arts