
Shanna
Compton's books
and chapbooks include Down Spooky, (Winnow
Press, 2005), GAMERS: Writers, Artists & Programmers on the Pleasures
of Pixels, (Soft Skull, 2004), Big Confetti (with Shafer
Hall, HEHF 2004), Closest Major Town (HEHF, 2006), and For
Girls (Bloof Books, forthcoming
in 2007). Her
poems and essays have appeared in dozens of publications and several
anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2005, The Bedside
Guide to No Tell Motel, Bowery Women, Digerati, and the Poetry
Foundation website.
She served
as Associate Publisher and Director of Publicity at Soft
Skull Press from 2002-2007, for which she also edited poetry collections
and experimental fictions, designed books, and curated both the Frequency
Series and the Soft Skull Sneak Peek Series.
An advocate
of DIY and small-scale publishing, she founded the DIY
Poetry Publishing Cooperative in 2005 and publishes poetry chapbooks
and broadsides via her micropress Half Empty/Half
Full. She works as a freelance copywriter and occasionally teaches
poetry and publishing.