Gail Shepherd

Gail Shepherd has been a food writer, a teacher, a poet, a book reviewer, an editor, and a journalist. She received her creative M.A. from the University of Florida in poetry. One of her first jobs was as a book reader for a paperback publisher in London. She has collaborated on radio plays, written comic serial magazine stories, and published her own biweekly indie newspaper. Today, she works in the K-12 education industry. She is a fourth generation Floridian on her mother’s side, and she lives in South Florida now with her little family, two dogs, and an awful lot of mosquitoes. The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins is her debut middle grade novel.