Education
He was educated at Milton High School in Bulawayo, and later attended the University of Natal in South Africa, where he completed his English Masters degree in "A Study of Keatsian Dialectics".
He was educated at Milton High School in Bulawayo, and later attended the University of Natal in South Africa, where he completed his English Masters degree in "A Study of Keatsian Dialectics".
He moved to Colleen Bawn, a small mining town in the south of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), at the age of four. Eppel teaches English at Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo. He has published 13 books (so far), one of which has been translated into French (The giraffe man), created a creative writing course for the University of South Africa and published three "O"Level and one "A" Level literature study guides.