Esther Kanyamanza is a Rwandan writer, assistant teacher, and full-time overthinker. She also ran a blog on gender issues, but eventually switched to novels—because fictional people are easier to argue with and slightly less disappointing.

She was just minding her business when a sarcastic little voice whispered, "Write this down." Several mental breakdowns, abandoned drafts, and plot holes later, she finished her first novel. 

AWARE is her debut novel—and she has no intention of writing anything sane after this.

She believes in God and her ability to ignore an alarm.

Please don't send her to heaven just yet—she has a wedding planned. (With Damson Idris. He just doesn't know it.)