Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a writer, documentary filmmaker and video essayist. The author of The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir (The Penguin Press), Shepard’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Story Magazine, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among other publications.

Her credits as a producer include The September Issue, (A&E Films), The Education of Mohammad Hussein (HBO) and The Other Half of Tomorrow (Margaret Mead Film Festival, Opening Night Selection).

The recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, Kundiman and Yaddo, Shepard is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University. She lives with her family in New Haven, Connecticut.