Paul Shepherd
Paul is a Former Writer in Residence and Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University, where he earned a PhD with distinction. He attended the University of Virginia, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Greensboro.
Paul has taught travel writing with Semester at Sea, as well as college classes in creative writing, magazine and newspaper writing, and modern literature. He has served as Senior Editor of International Quarterly, Editor of Hospital Drive, and as faculty advisor to award-winning college newspapers and literary magazines.
He is currently a high school English teacher and boys tennis coach in Charlottesville, Virginia.
More Like Not Running Away won the Mary McCarthy Award and was published by Sarabande, was a finalist for the Associated Writing Programs Award in the the Novel, the Bakeless Prize, and twice for the James Jones prizes.
His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Fiction, Omni, Prairie Schooner, William and Mary Review, Folio, Pacific Review, US Catholic, St. Anthony Messenger, Portland Review, the Quarterly, Beloit Fiction, Maryland Review, and elsewhere.
He has completed manuscripts of a book of poetry,
Abide With Me,
a memoir,
The Shott-Shepherd TransAmerican Free Ride,
and two novels.
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Paul has worked as a Director of Student Activities, Director of Youth and Family Ministries, Director of Tennis Instruction, teacher, professor, and writer. He is a member of Wintergreen Ski Patrol, where he is a ski and toboggan instructor. He has traveled extensively, plays guitar and sings, and spends too much time on construction projects.
His wife, Lois Shepherd, is the Wallenborn Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Public Health Sciences, and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. They have three children, Max, Summer, and Charlie.
