Nikola Shepheard is an Australian-born writer living in South Yorkshire, UK. With an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from Curtin University, she is currently pursuing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, whilst also actively writing her debut novel in the Jericho Writers Ultimate Novel Writing Course.

Her currently untitled debut novel was longlisted for the New2TheScene 2026 Summer Novel Competition, and she received an honourable mention in the WritingBattle Solstice 500-word fiction competition. 

Her current work in progress is a historical fiction set in 19th-century Scotland, depicting the tragic fallout of the Highland Clearances and a young woman desperate to save her home and her family.