She got into serious writing in 2008 and has not turned back. She soon discovered that writing young adult fiction was easier as compared to children stories and with no time, she was into writing for the young adults. She started writing articles, and they have appeared in Appleseed, Faces and Calliope magazines. It was during one of such times that she realized that storytelling could be fun and great, and her husband encouraged her to write her stories. So when did it cross her mind that she can write and make a living? While she was in Senegal, she took a project of collecting traditional oral folktales that she transcribed into an illustrated volume and was distributing it to village schools. Whenever Megan Shepherd is not playing around with the pen and the paper, she loves horseback riding, gardening at her family farm in the place she was brought up and also day dreaming at coffee shops. She went further and joined Peace Corps, and she spent two years in Senegal where she was teaching school children about wildlife education.

We can say she wanted to be armed with the right understanding when she traveled to people of different cultures. She went further and studied International Studies and foreign language. When she got the chance to learn more, she didn’t drop her passion. As she grew up, her love was always about travel and cultures. She is now a writer, and her target audience is the young adults. Though she was always surrounded by books, she confesses that she never thought of becoming an author being a career she was to take. Megan grew up in the mountains of North Carolina, and she had the privilege of growing up surrounded by books as her parents operated a bookstore by the name Highland Books in Brevard.

Let’s bring her more closely to your understanding.

You might have read some of the books she has written and just wondered who she is and wished you got a chance to know her more. We have greater writers who have written excellent books, and Megan Shepherd is one of them. You always at times read a book and wished that you met with the author and had a chat with them.

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