As a writer myself, I love pulling a writer’s choices apart to see what lies beneath. Before long, I was writing more formal book reviews for HTMLGIANT, trying to think through the books I was reading and what those books were trying to do. When I get excited about a book, I can’t stop talking about it. I started discussing books on the PANK blog, mostly sharing my thoughts on books I loved because I wanted to spread the good word. How did you get your start writing book reviews? You can follow her on Twitter, first remember reading your work on HTMLGIANT. Her memoir, Hunger, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in 2016.
Originally from Omaha, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, Gay is an associate professor of English at Purdue University and is the coeditor of PANK magazine.
