Life
1954- ; b. Edinburgh; ed. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and
Aberdeen Univ. (English); undergraduate winner of Calder Poetry Prize;
came to Belast as volunteer community worker, 1977; contributed to The
Female Line (NI Women’s Rights Group, 1985); short story in Irish
Press New Irish Writing, shortlisted for Hennessy Award, 1986; Trio
5 (Blackstaff 1987); Map-Makers’ Colours (Montreal 1988);
worked as part-time adminstrative asst. for Conservation Volunteers (teaching),
to c.1988; resigned to write; A Ring with a Plack Stone (Lapwing
Poetry Pamphlet 1989); Passages 3 (?1988); also contrib. to Fortnight
Review, The Salmon, and and Points North; ‘Trailers’
incl. in Blackstaff Book of Short Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff
1988).
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Works
Listed as Shepperson in Aspects, Celebration of Irish Writing,
Bangor 1994, where she appeared with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Joan
Newmann, and others.
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Criticism
Rebecca E. Wilson, and Gillian Somerville-Arjat, [interview with Shepperson],
interviewers and eds., Sleeping with Monsters: Conversations with Scottish
and Irish Women Poets (Wolfhound 1990), p.131-39 [incl. poem, ‘Loyalist
Strike: In the Suburbs, March 3rd 1986]; Tom Clyde, ‘The Echo Chamber,
Some Emerging Ulster Poets’, in Michael Kenneally, ed., Poetry
in Contemporary Irish Literature [Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature
2 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1995), pp.114-29.
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