Feb 11
HMS Event
Creative Nonfiction in Conversation: Roxane Gay and Saeed Jones
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Time: 4 - 5:50 p.m.
Location: Harvard Science Center - Hall A (1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)
HMS students are welcome to join us for lunch with the authors in the TMEC 246 Walter Amphitheater from 12:00-1:00 pm ET.
Critically-acclaimed and best-selling author Roxane Gay joins Saeed Jones for a conversation about their work and the power of creative nonfiction to improve health and change the way we think about ourselves, each other and the systems of power we all attempt to navigate daily. Both authors will read from new and recent work.
About Roxane Gay:
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects. She also has a newsletter, The Audacity and once had a podcast, The Roxane Gay Agenda.
About Saeed Jones:
Saeed Jones is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the department of Global Health and Social Medicine. He is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon & Schuster), winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Books), winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His book Alive at the End of the World (Coffee House Press) won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry. His next book Home Out Here, a memoir, is forthcoming from Washington Square Press.
Save the dates:
The Creative Nonfiction in Conversation series will continue with Ashley Ford on March 4 and Isaac Fitzgerald on April 2. More information to come.