Sheldon Lee Compton

Sheldon Lee Compton is a short story writer, novelist, and poet from Eastern Kentucky. He is the author of the short story collections The Same Terrible Storm (Foxhead Books, 2012) and Where Alligators Sleep (Foxhead Books, 2014) the novel Brown Bottle (Bottom Dog Press, 2016) and the poetry chapbook Podunk Lore, part of the Lantern Lit series (Dog On a Chain Press, 2018) His work has also been nominated for the Chaffin Award for Excellence in Appalachian Writing, the Pushcart Prize, the Still: Journal Award and the Gertrude Stein Fiction Award.