For the spring of 2019 Gay was serving as a visiting professor at Yale University.
Gay published a short-story collection, Ayiti (2011), then two books in 2014: the novel An Untamed State and the essay collection Bad Feminist (2014).
She directly confronts complex issues of identity and privilege, but it's always accessible and insightful.' Projects An Untamed StateĪ Time review noted: 'Gay's writing is simple and direct, but never cold or sterile.