Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. She is the author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home, which was published by The Penguin Press in 2008. She received a BA from Wesleyan University, where she studied with Jeanine Basinger, an MA from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to India in 2001. Shepard''s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Forward and The Indian Express. She is currently a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University.