I use fiction to teach in my social science courses and I am always keen to explore the issues that I work on in my research. - Peace Adzo Medie

An important role that writers can play is in documenting resistance movements. This can ensure visibility, facilitate recognition, and bring marginalized voices to the center.

You need connections, you need to have a certain kind of training, you need an agent, and if you send your work to an agent, it ends up in a slush pile. It was all too much. So I never sent out a book manuscript - my plan was that I would look into publishing my books when I retired from academia. I just figured that I would keep writing, then when I was 65 or 70, I would try to get published. That was the plan.

Stories allow us to peek into the lives of others, and they also allow us to see ourselves.