Sadia Shepard

Lecturer

Sadia Shepard is the author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Lost Loves, and A Sense of Home (The Penguin Press, 2009). She received a BA from Wesleyan University, an MA from the Graduate Program in Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to India in 2001. The recipient of the Barach Fellowship in Non-Fiction from the Wesleyan Writers Conference and a residency at Yaddo, Shepard's writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times. She recently produced The September Issue, a documentary portrait of the making of Vogue Magazine, which won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.