Susan Sheppard

Susan Sheppard is a poet from Parkersburg, West Virginia, with work in over 100 magazines and more than 30 years of writing. She is descended from the Blackfoot-Saponi and Lenape-Shawnee tribes of her region. Her chapbook Balefire, a winner of Crisis Chronicles Press's poetry chapbook competition, was published in 2015. She also wrote non-fiction, a novel, and card decks, and ran the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours. Her death in April 2021 is recorded on Goodreads and the Better Than Starbucks page.