Sheldon Lee ComptonSheldon 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 minr, 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. Read More Read Less