Roxane Gay — bestselling author, critic and feminist icon — is preparing for her first ever UK tour. When we speak, she’s at her home in Los Angeles where she lives with her wife Debbie Millman, and reels off a long schedule of meetings, interviews and a hair appointment.
Her hair is covered with a black headwrap, and she wears a black T-shirt with a small Lacoste logo. Despite being described as shy, Gay is warm and humorous. She shares stories about meeting Millman — who “chased her”, she jokes — and their June 2020 wedding “at a place called Instant Marriage LA.com”, which ended with “a socially distanced barbecue for eight in the backyard of our home”.
