"Compton does as much as anyone yet to represent the way her youngish people live now, the alterable, friable, quizzical, digital, comical voice of a plugged-in, sexed-out, and reluctantly but unmistakably political cohort." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
9/10 in Philadelphia, PA • 9/16 in Brooklyn, NY • 10/5–10/7 in Notre Dame, IN • 10/22 in New York, NY • 3/6 in Newtown, PA • 4/12–4/14 in New Orleans, LA
Shanna Compton is the author of Brink (Bloof, 2013), For Girls + Others (Bloof, 2010), Down Spooky (Open Book Award Winner, Winnow, 2005), and several chapbooks. Current projects include The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem, and Creature Sounds Fade, a new poetry collection. Her poetry and essays are widely published, appearing in Best American Poetry, the Nation, American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere.
New poems have recently appeared in the Nation, the American Poetry Review, jubilat, and are forthcoming elsewhere.