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 David
Sheppard is the author of two recently published non-fiction works:
Novelsmithing and Oedipus on a Pale Horse. The first two
volumes of his work
The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis, will appear in bookstores in late 2009.
Sheppard holds a B.S. from Arizona State University and a M.S. from Stanford University, and has also studied
American Literature at
the University of Colorado. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, and in The Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology (Ted Hughes and Seamus
Heaney, Editors). A veteran of many writing groups and conferences, Sheppard is a past member of the Rocky Mountain Writers Guild,
having chaired its Literary Society and participated in its Live Poets Society and Advanced Novel Workshop. He has taught astronomy,
novel writing, and Greek mythology at New Mexico State University, Carlsbad. He has also traveled throughout Western Europe, and is
an amateur photographer and astronomer. |
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