It’s important to know when to take advice and when to heed criticism. Just ask writer Shingai Njeri Kagunda; had she ignored the feedback she received for her short story “And This Is How To Stay Alive,” she never would’ve expanded it into the Afrofuturist time travel sci-fi novella & This Is How To Stay Alive (paperback). In the following email interview, Kagunda discusses what else helped shaped this story.