It’s only been five short years since Ali Hazelwood’s debut novel, The Love Hypothesis, took the romance genre by storm, landing on The New York Times Best Sellers list and staying there for 40-plus weeks. Rather than resting on her laurels, however, the writer rolled up her sleeves and got to work, churning out nine more novels and 10 novellas since then.
It was a radical shift for the former neuroscience professor, whose STEM-focused plots were drawn directly from her experiences as a woman in the field. “When I started my Ph.D., I was the only woman in my cohort, and it felt kind of isolating,” she told WGBH in 2023.
