HATICE MERYEM was born in 1968 in Istanbul. She studied economics, worked as a bank clerk between 1991 and 1994, then traveled to London and took on cleaning, babysitting, ironing, newspaper delivery, serving and other support jobs. Her book Just an Inch of My Husband... was published in 2002; it was staged by the Ankara State Theater with the same title. Currently, he makes a living by writing scripts for soap operas and series.

"You should only have an inch of your husband, the main thing is to be by your side!" If you're not a woman, you're worthless - according to popular belief. But what can that inch-sized husband be like? Housekeeper or imam? A dwarf? Or a drunkard? The Turkish author imagines it all - with a lot of imagination and humor.
The second work in the volume is a desperate cry. Turkey's biggest social problem is currently the unfathomably high rate of women who are victims of murder, the majority of whom are killed by men who belong to their family or close acquaintances. Hatice's increasingly intense involvement in public life and her literary work both try to alleviate this situation.
How to go about killing a woman? draw a portrait of the murderer in an unusual structure, using a generic subject and strikingly bare sentences: male, young, old, married, unmarried, urban, rural, successful, unemployed, educated, uneducated, familiar, unknown.