Florence Rose Krall Shepard
Alumna, Ph.D. Educational Administration
Florence Rose Krall Shepard is Professor Emerita of Educational Studies at the University
of Utah, where she taught educational, environmental and feminist studies. She has
published her personal narratives in journals and anthologies and a book, Ecotone
(SUNY Press, 1994), and edited and published Paul Shepard’s posthumous books including
Coming Home to the Pleistocene. Her latest work, Sometimes Creek is a historical memoir that spans the twentieth century and recapitulates the life
of a daughter of Italian immigrants who came to Wyoming to make a new life. From her
cabin in the Hoback Basin, Flo retraces the contours of her long life through the
lens of the seasons that call up memories. From the landscape of childhood on a sheep
ranch during the Great Depression, through schooling in a one-room school to universities,
marriages and motherhood, teaching and environmental activism, she pays tribute to
her nurturing Italian parents and the wonders of the natural world. Challenges faced
on her journey became divides from which she gained a new perspective.
Flo is the proud matriarch of four children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She lives in a cabin in Wyoming’s Hoback Basin for much of the year and winters in Salt Lake City. Contact Florence Shepard at: frshepard@earthlink.net.