“In every single Ph.D. program, at any given time, there are about 20 people who are having these weird relationships where everyone knows about it but also no one knows about it.”
, which publishes on Tuesday, follows a physicist in the throes of an on-campus interview for a faculty job that will save her from the horrific world of adjuncting, who, of course, falls in love with the one person on the hiring committee who is hellbent on making sure she doesn’t get the gig. I spoke to Hazelwood about, the mini-genre of STEM-centric romance writing, and why she thinks her books have gained such a strong following. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
I don’t think I did it on purpose. I don’t think I set out to be someone who just wrote about women in STEM. It was more that the first things that I wrote were fan fiction, and I was writing a lot of that when I was in grad school and doing my postdoc. And so it was really fun to take these characters that I loved and kind of transpose them into this setting that was so stressful for me and look at how they would’ve reacted if they had to defend their thesis or take comps or publish a paper.
It’s a struggle. And I’m like, “I hope no one looks too closely at this.” You know, I research a lot. My first book was about a biologist, and I’m a neuroscientist, but in my graduate program I had a lot of friends who are biologists. There was a lot of cross-pollination with other programs where we would all hang out together. So, I sort of take a lot of what they would tell me and I remember the struggles that they would have.
I think I lean a lot into what their insecurities are. And I think it might be because of how the process of starting to write worked for me. Writing, originally, was this hobby that I really needed because I was spending my entire days writing my dissertation and working on something that was incredibly taxing. And so writing fan fiction was something that would allow me to explore more personal things.
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