Shanna Compton

Poet

Blue Hill, ME
Maine US
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Author's Bio

Shanna Compton is a printmaker and poet in Blue Hill, ME. She works in linocut, collage, monotype, screen print, and mixed media illustration. She also works as a commercial book designer and illustrator, collaborating with more than a dozen independent publishers.

She is the author of five books of poems: Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence Press), Midwinter Constellation (coauthor, Black Lawrence Press), Brink (Bloof Books), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof Books), Down Spooky (Winnow Press). Her poems have appeared in publications such as the NationAmerican Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Court GreenBennington ReviewBlack Warrior ReviewTypo, and The Best American Poetry anthology series.

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Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Counter-Desecrations: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan University Press, 2018)
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Please Add to This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer’s Sonnets & Experiments (Tender Buttons Press, 2014)
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Sixty Morning Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014)
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The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013)
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Best American Poetry 2005 (Scribner, 2005)
Books:
Midwinter Constellation (coauthor) (Black Lawrence Press, 2022)
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Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)
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Brink (Bloof Books, 2013)
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For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof Books, 2008)
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Gamers (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
Journals:
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Court Green
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Jubilat
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The Nation
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The Tiny
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Women's Studies Quarterly
Prizes won: 

Open Book Award Winner, Down Spooky, Winnow Press (2005)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024