Background
Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He received a Bachelor of Arts at Trinity College in 1978 and an Master of Fine Arts from Brown University in 1980.
He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. They are on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.
Additionally, Shepard writes from the point of view of characters of a wide variety of nationalities.