The Creative Life

Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay
Tuesday, November 2 at 7pm

The designer and author are married and will be interviewed as a couple.

A UAlbany alum, designer Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters, one of the world’s first and longest running podcasts. Millman has written six books and has two books of illustrated essays.  Her latest publication is Why Design Matters, just recently released by HarperCollins.  Her illustrated works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, New York Magazine, Print Magazine, Design Observer and Fast Company.  Millman’s artwork is included in the Boston Biennale, Chicago Design Museum, Anderson University, School of Visual Arts, Long Island University, The Wolfsonion Museum and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art.

Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Gay is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and The New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming, is at work on television and film projects and has a newsletter, The Audacity.