Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and video essayist. Her research and teaching focus on observational documentary filmmaking, short films, film adaptation, autobiographical storytelling, and videographic criticism. 

The author of The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir (The Penguin Press), Shepard’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Story Magazine, The New York Times, Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia, and others. Her video essays are forthcoming in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Studies and ASAP/J, the open access platform of ASAP/Journal. Her credits as a documentary film producer include The September Issue (A&E Films) and The Education of Mohammad Hussein (HBO). Her films have been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, LA Independent Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival (Opening Night Selection), and others.