/lit/ - Literature

>Submittable
Wtf do I even put here? Do I use first or third person?
Something as simple as possible like "John Smith has a B.A. in English and lives in New York with his wife"? It sounds awkward and impersonal.

The articles I've found said use third-person like the author blurb you'd see on the book jacket, but this isn't for some agent, it's for a contest where they're going to read the entire manuscript
Seems like I should relate the book to my own life, but the book is only really personal in that it draws on my experience having cancer, which I don't think is appropriate to mention upfront