Peng Shepherd
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Peng Shepherd was born on 12 May 1986 in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Arizona State University in 2006, an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy and Chinese Language from SOAS University of London in 2008, and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University in 2014, where she was a Stein Fellow in 2013 and a Veterans Fellow in 2014. She received the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for debut speculative fiction in 2019 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2020. Her books include the dystopian fantasy The Book of M (2018), the novelette The Future Library (2021), which won the 2022 Ignyte Award for Novelette, and The Cartographers (2022).
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- Core Canon books: 1
- Current rank: #1148 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.62
- Award recognitions: None recorded
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- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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