Shanna Compton is an artist and poet in Blue Hill, ME. She is also the author of five books of poems, most recently Creature Sounds Fade, published by Black Lawrence Press. She has worked with dozens of independent publishers as a designer, cover artist, lettering artist, and illustrator, and creates handmade books with linocut covers for her own small press, Bloof Books. Since 2016, she has been the in-house designer for Black Square Editions, directed by the poet and art critic John Yau. Her newest book, Deep Whoosh, is an artist book of 50 visual-poem collages featuring closed-caption sound effects. Collages from the book were the subject of a solo exhibition at Anodyne in Searsport, Maine, in June 2025.