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Roxane Gay (Photo: Presley Ann\/Getty Images for Hammer Museum )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among her many attribute, Roxane Gay is now starting a book imprint<\/a>. The professor, editor, social commentator, advice columnist, and best-selling writer<\/a>, whose books include the essay collection Bad Feminist<\/em> and a memoir, Hunger,<\/em> will be part of Grove Atlantic, the publishing house announced Wednesday, May 26. Roxane Gay Books<\/a> plans to release three titles a year, a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir, and focus on underrepresented voices. Gay founded Tiny Hardcore Press in 2011, turning out 25 to 50 copies of each title along with e-books.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was when I was making absolutely no money,\u201d she says in an interview with The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEverything was very shoestring but well-intended. And I always wondered what it would be like to publish books with an actual budget and actual promotion efforts behind it, like a marketing department and advances and things like that.\u201d Grove is one of the larger independent publishers in the United States and one of the most prestigious. It has published Gay\u2019s fiction since 2014, starting with her first novel, An Untamed State<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gay, who is based in Los Angeles, will make her first call for submissions this summer and plans to open her doors to writers with and without agents. She did warn that the call for stories could change if the volume of manuscripts becomes overwhelming. \u201cThere are so many barriers and so many gates,\u201d she says. \u201cLet\u2019s take them down.\u201d Grove announced Wednesday that they also plan to offer a paid, one-year fellowship program that would serve as a crash course in publishing, for applicants without access to such jobs through traditional pathways. Gay will select and edit the books her imprint publishes, but she will also work closely on these projects with Amy Hundley, an executive editor at Grove who edits Gay\u2019s work. Hundley said that Gay\u2019s eye for talent, in addition to the talent she possesses, was enormously appealing to Grove. Gay hopes to receive manuscripts highlighting queer voices and feminist voices, as well as stories focused on body size. 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