Shanna Compton

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 Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Court Green, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Typo, and The Best American Poetry anthology series.

An artist's book of her closed-caption collage series, Deep Whoosh, is forthcoming in August 2025 from Black Square Editions.