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 David Sheppard holds a
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State and a Master's
in Astronautical Engineering from Stanford University. He
also studied creative writing and American Literature at the University of Colorado. His poetry has
appeared in The Paris Review and in
England (The
1987 Arvon International Poetry
Competition Anthology judged by Ted Hughes and
Seamus Heaney). While living
in Colorado he was a member of the Rocky Mountain Writers Guild for seven
years, participated in its Live Poets Society and Advanced Novel Workshop,
and chaired its Literary Society. He founded a novel critique group that
lasted ten years. He has attended the Aspen Writers Conference in
Colorado and the Sierra Writing Camp in California. Occasionally he
teaches Novel Writing and
Greek Mythology at
New Mexico State University
at Carlsbad in the Continuing Education Department. He has traveled
throughout western Europe and is an amateur photographer and astronomer.*
He has lived in California,
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and currently resides in Carlsbad,
New Mexico. He has worked as a farmer, bank teller, electronics technician, combat
crew member on ICBM's, aerospace engineer, library assistant, and has taught astronomy at NMSU-Carlsbad. His thirty-year aerospace
career included work on the Viking
Project which landed the first robots on
Mars, and many Space Shuttle related projects. On the international Shuttle Earth-Imaging Radar (SIR-C) he was the liaison between NASA and the European
Space Agency, working primarily with German and Italian aerospace companies. For
three years, he was one of JPL/NASA's Solar System Ambassadors.
He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics. He
served
eight years in the US Air Force during the Vietnam era, both in the
enlisted ranks and as an officer. His greatest love is ancient Greek mythology
and religion. He is single and has two grown kids.
Everything else of importance you can learn by reading his eBook,
Oedipus on a Pale Horse.
You may contact him at dshep@dshep.com.
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