BIOGRAPHY
Shanna Compton is a printmaker and poet in Blue Hill, ME. She works in linocut, collage, monotype, screen print, and mixed media illustration. She also works as a commercial book designer and illustrator, collaborating with more than a dozen independent publishers.
She is the author of five books of poems: Creature Sounds Fade (Black Lawrence Press), Midwinter Constellation (coauthor, Black Lawrence Press), Brink (Bloof Books), For Girls & Other Poems (Bloof Books), Down Spooky (Winnow Press). Her poems have appeared in publications such as the Nation, American Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Court Green, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, Typo, and The Best American Poetry anthology series.
Education
•BA, The University of Texas (Austin, TX)
•MFA, The New School (New York, NY, 2002)
•Letterpress I & II, The Center for Book Arts (New York, NY, 2006)
•Woodcut, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME, 2023)
EXHIBITIONS, EXCHANGES, INSTALLATIONS
•Flora & Fauna, Group Printmaking Show & International Exchange, curated by Sally Caston. Houghton, South Australia, 2023.
•Community Mural, Group Installation, Blue Hill Co-Op, Blue Hill, Maine, 2022.
•Relief Conspiracy, International Printmaking Exchange, organized by Scott Minzy, Pittston, Maine, 2022.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
•Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril, Azo Vauguy, trans. by Todd Fredson (Action Books, 2023). Cover artist.
•The Prelude, Marty Cain (Action Books, 2023). Cover artist.
•If This Should Reach You in Time, Justin Marks (Barrelhouse Books, 2022). Cover artist.
•The Year of the Buttered Cat, Susan Haas with Lexi Haas (Penny Candy Books, 2021). Cover artist and illustrator.
•Whatever Love Means, Christine No (Barrelhouse Books, 2021). Cover artist.
•Some of the Times, Gina Myers (Barrelhouse Books, 2020). Cover artist.
•That's What You Get, Sheila Maldonado (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2020). Cover artist.
•Cloud Hopper, Beth Kephart (Penny Candy Books, 2020). Cover artist.
•The Cloud Lasso, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer (Penny Candy Books, 2019). Cover lettering artist.
•The Evasion-English Dictionary, Maggie Balistreri (Em Dash Group, 2018). Cover artist.
•Whatever Stasis, Chris Tonelli (Barrelhouse Books, 2017). Cover artist.
•Year 14, Michael Konik (Barrelhouse Books, 2017). Cover artist.
COPYRIGHT
All artwork ©2023 Shanna Compton. For commissions, licensing inquiries, or other permissions, please get in touch via the contact form.