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About the Author

 

David Sheppard is the author of the recently published non-fiction work Oedipus on a Pale Horse. The first two volumes of his trilogy, The Mysteries: A Novel of Ancient Eleusis, will appear in bookstores in 1st quarter 2010. 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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