[7] At the age of 18, he moved to Perth and studied a bachelors of English literature at Edith Cowan University.
In 2019, he won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for an Emerging Writer and received $15,000 in prize money.
[12] The book follows a group of school leavers on a remote island off the coast of Western Australia, where they discover a dead body.
[13] Sheppard's writing has been published in several literary magazines including Griffith Review, Westerly, page seventeen and Indigo Journal.
[14] His work has also appeared in anthologies Bright Lights, No City (2018),[14] Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales (2021)[15] and Growing Up in Country Australia (2022).