13. Aiwanose Odafen on the book Tomorrow I Become a Woman

My guest on this episode is Aiwanose Odafen, the author of Tomorrow I Become A Woman. Our conversation covers the publishing deal, the writing process, the inspiration for the book and what it means to be a woman.Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Aiwanose Odafen is an MFA fiction student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She has contributed to published non-fiction works and participated in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Writing Workshop. She was longlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize. Tomorrow I Become a Woman, her first novel, was published by Scribner UK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK, in 2022.