Ross Gay

Ross Gay is an American poet, essayist and professor whose work celebrates joy, grief, community and the natural world. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Inciting Joy, available as an audiobook and book, explores what joy really means — not as an escape from sorrow but as something that exists alongside it. Gay writes with infectious warmth and lyrical beauty, making his essays a delight for readers and listeners.