About
Jonathan, Tyree Sheppard is an American poet, painter, and author who has published five works; Someone Sinister (2013), Bad Stories (2014), Universe Unraveling (2016), The Night I Died and Other Poems (2018), and his first novel The Dorner Protocol (2021) under his own proprietary moniker BAD THOUGHTS Publishing Company. His forthcoming work More Bad Stories will be available later Summer 2025. He was born in the year 1985 in the beautiful but deteriorating hell hole of Seattle, Washington. He grew up in a home with his mother and three brothers but his childhood was heavily influenced by his grandparents. Many of his youthful days were spent in church with his grandma or on the bus with his grandpa.
He moved to Los Angeles in 2007, similarly to most LA transplants, to pursue a career in film. After he was disillusioned by the politics of the film industry, he abandoned his film goals and enrolled at Los Angeles City College to pursue a degree in English Literature. LACC is where he met his wife and mother of his three children and muse for one of his favorite characters, Esther. He has a Bachelor Degree in English from the University of California's Los Angeles campus and a Master Degree in Management in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern California.
He is a proud American Populist that lives in a state that is doing all it can to demean, destroy, then usurp all American values. The Bill of Rights is his backbone that is why he named his company as he did. When speech is inevitably snatched from our jaws he takes solace that he will always be free to have BAD THOUGHTS.
