She’s also a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times and an associate professor of English at Purdue University. (Ta-Nehisi Coates, who oversaw the Black Panther relaunch suggested her to Marvel.) It's a comic written by a bisexual black feminist about two black, bisexual, feminist women. She’s the author of the comic World of Wakanda, which is part of Marvel’s Black Panther series. Her short story collection, Difficult Women, and the memoir, Hunger, are out in 2017. Roxane Gay is the author of the best-selling essay collection, Bad Feminist, along with the multi-genre collection Ayiti, and the novel An Untamed State (which is being adapted for film).