Shanna Compton

Shanna Compton's first full-length poetry collection, Down
Spooky, was published by Winnow Press in November 2005. Her
poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American
Poetry 2005, Coconut, the Tiny, Spork, The Bedside Guide to
No Tell Motel, & elsewhere. As the Associate Publisher of
Soft Skull Press, she edited poetry collections &
experimental fictions, & curated both the Frequency Series &
the Soft Skull Sneak Peek Series. She also edited an
anthology of essays on the subject of video games called
GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures of
Pixels. From 2002-2005 she served as the editor of LIT,
where she is still an editor at large. She teaches poetry &
publishing occasionally, & works as a freelance copywriter.
Via her micropress Half Empty/Half Full, she publishes
poetry chapbooks & broadsides. Originally from Texas, she
has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 1995.