Status Updates From The James Tiptree Award Ant...

"Jorge Luis Borges said that he considered all prose literature to be fiction. Fiction, for Borges, thus includes history, journalism, biography, memoir, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Pierre Menard's Don Quixote, the works of Borges, Peter Rabbit, and the Bible."

"And his persona wasn't too constricting; I wrote as me. Maybe my peculiar upbringing — where values like Don't-be-a-coward and Achieve! and Find-out-how-it-works and Fight-on-the-underdog's-side were stamped in before they got to the You're-a-young-lady stuff (which was awful) — maybe this resulted in a large part of me being kind of a generalized Human being rather than specifically female."

And done. :)