The result is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women says the moment she realized that she would 'never want to write about fatness' was the same moment she knew this was the book she needed to write. Roxane Gay has finally written the book that she 'wanted to write the least.' She teaches English at Purdue University. Her previous books include Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and An Untamed State. Roxane Gay is a novelist and short story writer.