Then I read a bunch of bios for last year's winners and felt super inadequate. Amongst the author bios of past winners:
- Somebody who taught English to refugees in Darfur while commuting to and from work by bicycle (think: sand dunes and snipers)
- An MBA from New York who now teaches past-life reincarnation workshops in Nepal
- An author with an MFA, an MD and a doctorate in quantum physics who, in her spare time, bathes homeless kittens that are in 'transitional housing' (the RSPCA)
- An Irish author who is a recovering alcoholic and whose work has previously appeared in Men's Fitness, Harper's Bazaar and OMNI magazine (out of print since 1998)
- An English author who was raised in Honduras in a rat-infested tree house while writing dissertations on Joyce, David Foster Wallace and string theory ... in Spanish by flashlight
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