Emma Shepard is a singer/songwriter from Kent, Ohio playing in the tradition of Regina Spektor and Cat Power. Emma wrote her first full-length album at the age of seventeen and, after the two year recording process, released it digitally and physically (in select record stores). Author Chuck Klosterman wrote that "it is obvious that Emma Shepard is a woman with rare talent." Anastasia Pantsios, a writer for Cool Cleveland, compared Emma's debut album to the works of Kate Bush and Tori Amos.