Roxane Gay

Writing into the Wound

Amy Grieve

I’ve never gotten around to reading any of Roxanne Gay’s work until now and I’m so glad I changed that. Even from this short essay it’s clear to me that Gay is a writer who conscious of her audience and cares about the subject matter at hand. Personally, I appreciated this essay on several levels because it was clear and detailed with every point it made. The essay also worked as a reflection on how Gay felt about the responses she received to her memoir which detailed her own trauma while also providing a few different ways we can write trauma. This whole thing really made me want to reevaluate my own writing, especially the way I write trauma.