Sheldon Lee Compton

Sheldon Lee Compton was born, raised, and continues to survive in Pike County, Kentucky, the commonwealth�s easternmost tip. He lives there with his wife, Heather, and two children, Tyler Lee and Natalie Grace. He has worked as a coal miner, journalist, public relations specialist, short order cook, college professor, speech writer, and carpenter. His writing career started at the age of fourteen as an opinion columnist for the local newspaper. A graduate of Spalding University�s...See more

Sheldon Lee Compton was born, raised, and continues to survive in Pike County, Kentucky, the commonwealth�s easternmost tip. He lives there with his wife, Heather, and two children, Tyler Lee and Natalie Grace. He has worked as a coal miner, journalist, public relations specialist, short order cook, college professor, speech writer, and carpenter. His writing career started at the age of fourteen as an opinion columnist for the local newspaper. A graduate of Spalding University�s MFA program in Louisville, he is the author of the short story collections The Same Terrible Storm and Where Alligators Sleep. He has been nominated for the Chaffin Award for Excellence in Appalachian Writing and was a finalist for both the Gertrude Stein Fiction Award and the Still Fiction Award in 2012. His work was most recently included as a finalist in Queen�s Ferry Press�s anthology The Best Small Fictions 2015. In addition to his own work, he founded and edits the online journal Revolution John and is a former associate editor of the acclaimed literary journal Night Train. See less