PEN World Voices Festival | Roxane Gay: The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

One of the country’s leading voices, Roxane Gay, will deliver the Festival’s signature Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture.

Gay’s writing includes the acclaimed 2014 bestseller, Bad Feminist; her debut novel, An Untamed State; and work in numerous collections of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her latest book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, will be released in 2016. Gay is also a contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times and an associate professor at Purdue University. Her delivery of the Arthur Miller Lecture marks her debut appearance at the Festival.

Named for the former PEN president and fierce defender of the freedom of expression, the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture is the culminating event of the week-long PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. In past years, this lecture has been delivered by luminaries such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Umberto Eco, Nawal El Saadawi, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Colm Tóibín, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Wole Soyinka. Check the festival’s website for this year’s speaker.