Shanna Compton

Shanna Compton’s fourth poetry collection, Creature Sounds Fade, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in spring 2020. She is also the author of Brink, For Girls & Other Poems, Down Spooky, and is at work on a book-length speculative poem called The Hazard Cycle. New work is appearing in the Nation, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, jubilat, and the Wesleyan anthology Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene. She works as a freelance book designer in Lambertville, NJ.