I said to love with your head but I’m also the first person to tell you that it is hard to live like that. It is brutal and it eats at you every day … - Peace Adzo Medie

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.

The transition probably happened when I was working on my doctoral dissertation. Around that time, I started sending out short stories. Short stories were more manageable because, in some ways, submitting them was similar to submitting academic research articles. So I think it was easy for me to do. But I remember going online, because I didn't know much about publishing or people in publishing - I only knew one person who was a writer before I published my book. I went on Google and searched, ‘how do you publish a book?’ and the steps just seemed so overwhelming.

Marriage shouldn’t be a never-ending competition where you spend your life fighting to be seen and chosen.