Baboons

Susan Shepherd’s fiction has been published in Ploughshares (Summer 2020), the Chicago Quarterly Review (Spring 2022), and Story (Summer 2022), and her award-winning short radio comic strip 11 Central Ave has aired on NPR. Her work as a producer and reporter has aired on NPR’s Living on Earth, PRI’s Marketplace, and multiple daily NPR shows, and she was a contributor to a weekly column about science and nature for The Boston Globe. Shepherd’s story “Baboons” is part of an in-progress linked collection of short stories called Animalia; her story “Goats” (which appeared in Ploughshares) was listed as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2021, guest edited by Jesmyn Ward. Shepherd lives outside Boston and is working on a fiction podcast.