Dime Sheppard has a degree in English literature, and also spent seven years working for an NGO, mostly in South America. This means that she has diverse skills: she can string a sentence together, and she can also pee in the desert while fending off a baby goat, cook a delicious meal for thirty people with little more than potatoes and oregano, dig a bogged truck out of metre-deep mud with a broken teacup, and shower in cold water in the dead of winter without a murmur. She loves reading, swimming, and laughing at her dog (who is ridiculous).