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.