Now, Gay has unveiled her latest move to put the spotlight on young writers: the Joel Gay Fellowship. Through her Emerging Writers program, she offers green writers the opportunity to showcase their work through her platforms (she has over one million followers on Instagram and Twitter).
But from the beginning of her career, Gay has always made a point to pay it forward.
The writer, novelist, professor, columnist, and podcast host Roxane Gay already has a lengthy and deserved title attached to her name, in addition to a string of awards pinned to her works (her essay collection Bad Feminist is a New York Times bestseller, and she won the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018).
