Sadia Shepard

Sadia Shepard is a Pakistani American filmmaker and author based in New York City. 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. [1]

Biography

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,[2] The Forward, Wall Street Journal Magazine, and The Indian Express. She has taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia University.[3]

In addition to writing, she produces documentary films. She produced R.J.Cutler's The September Issue,[4] a documentary portrait of the making of Vogue, which won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors. Sadia lectures widely about growing up in a multi-faith home.[5]

She is the daughter of an American father, architect Richard Shepard, and a Pakistani American mother - artist, designer and educator, Samina Quraeshi.

References

  1. ^ Sadia Shepard at Penguin Press http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000069864,00.html
  2. ^ Room for Debate about the Slumdog Protests in Mumbai: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/the-real-roots-of-the-slumdog-protests/
  3. ^ Columbia Faculty page: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/faculty/sadia-shepard.html
  4. ^ NYTimes Review of The September Issue: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/movies/28issue.html
  5. ^ http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/conference/fac_gue.html