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Ali Hazelwood

Ali Hazelwood is an Italian-born novelist who writes contemporary romance centered on academia, STEM, and occasional speculative elements. She is best known for The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain, and Bride; her books have become international bestsellers and helped popularize STEM-focused romance for a broad mainstream readership.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Ali Hazelwood writes under a pseudonym, but the broad outline of her path is public: she was born in Italy, lived in Japan and Germany, and eventually moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Before publishing fiction full time, she worked as a professor for about three years. That scientific training became more than biographical background; it supplied the settings, pressures, and social dynamics that would define much of her fiction, especially her interest in women navigating male-dominated academic and technical worlds. ((https://alihazelwood.com/about/?utm_source=openai))

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Citations

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I find writing and reading stuff incredibly hot and, you know, it's something that makes me happy
-Ali Hazelwood’s sort-of-secret life as a best-selling author
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I get bored with myself and what I write very easily
-STEMinist romance queen Ali Hazelwood sinks her teeth into the paranormal with Bride
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When I started my Ph.D., I was the only woman in my cohort, and it felt kind of isolating
-With her 'STEMinist' romance novels, Ali Hazelwood creates chemistry with readers
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my frontal lobes are made of, I believe, soup
-In Conversation: Alex Aster and Ali Hazelwood
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I have nothing in my sleeve. I’m not hiding anything
-Ali Hazelwood Has Published Five Books This Year. What’s One More?
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That was always, to me, the most romantic and the most larger-than-life trope that I could think of
-Newsmaker: Ali Hazelwood
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It’s very hard to make friends as an adult
-The Love Hypothesis Author Ali Hazelwood on Getting Her Start in Fanfic
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Fated mates, enemies to lovers, and fated mates who happen to be enemies (and then become lovers)
-Exclusive Interview: Ali Hazelwood Discusses Love on the Brain

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Voix de la Communauté

"Ali Hazelwood is hiding in plain sight"

The Washington Post

"Ali Hazelwood has become known for her immensely popular STEM romances"

TIME

"Whenever I want a sexy, witty, delicious romance, I read Ali Hazelwood"

Simone St. James

"Bestselling author Ali Hazelwood wants you to fall in love with science"

The Boston Globe

"No one can make the world of academia quite as seductive as Ali Hazelwood"

Audible

"Ali Hazelwood deserves a gold medal for writing the hottest book of the year"

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"Ali Hazelwood is a BookTok sensation"

KMUW

"Ali Hazelwood is a romance powerhouse"

Hannah Grace

"Ali Hazelwood is one of the only authors whose editor I routinely beg for advance reader copies"

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