Roxane Gay Parents: Meet Michael Gay And Nicole Gay

May 2024 · 1 minute read

Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times’ best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist, as well as the short story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, the short story collection Difficult Women, and the memoir Hunger.

Roxane Gay Parents: Meet Michael Gay And Nicole Gay

Gay was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Michael and Nicole Gay, both of Haitian descent. Her mother was a homemaker and her father is the owner of GDG Béton et Construction, a Haitian concrete company. Gay is a cousin of Claudine Gay. Gay was raised Catholic and spent her summers visiting family in Haiti.

She attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Gay began writing essays as a teenager, with much of her early work being influenced by her experience with childhood sexual violence.

Her parents were relatively wealthy, supporting her through college and paying her rent until she was 30.

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