Shanna Compton

Shanna Compton is the author of Brink (Bloof, 2013), For Girls & Others (Bloof, 2008), Down Spooky (Open Book Award Winner, Winnow, 2005), and several chapbooks. Current projects include The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem, and Creature Sounds Fade, a poetry collection. About Brink, Stephanie Burt has written, "There is nothing quite like this exuberance, on the edge of paraphrasable sense but not over it, among Compton’s contemporaries, though many of them have tried. Compton takes it upon herself to make everything interesting, to make daily life spark and fizz." A book artist and small-press advocate, she has worked for publishers both independent and industrial, and currently designs books for a half-dozen small presses.

For more information, please visit shannacompton.com.