Reginald Shepherd (April 10, 1963 – September 10, 2008) was an American poet and teacher.
Reginald Shepherd was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx.
[1] Shepherd, African-American and gay,[1] graduated from Bennington College in 1988, and received MFAs from Brown University and the University of Iowa, where he attended the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop.
In his last year at the University of Iowa, he received the "Discovery" prize from the 92nd Street Y,[2] and his first collection, Some Are Drowning (1994), was chosen by Carolyn Forché for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award in Poetry.
[2] Shepherd’s poetry collections include: Red Clay Weather (2011); Fata Morgana (2007), winner of the Silver Medal of the 2007 Florida Book Awards; Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Wrong (1999); and Angel, Interrupted (1996).