Writer and poet Oliver Sheppard has quietly been making waves with his collections of dark verse. Critical reviews have been kind: "Like listening to a conversation between Nietzsche and William Blake while watching Peckinpah's 'Cross of Iron'," reviews of his first book, Destruction: Text I, claimed. Garnering accolades from academia and punk zines alike, Sheppard's first two collections of poetry take cues from the cosmic fatalism of Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti, and combines that with the lush, Gothic lyricism of the Dark Romanticist tradition.

Oliver Sheppard was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and currently lives in Texas.