The Same Terrible Storm introduces us to a fierce and lyrical writer who, in his depiction of contemporary Appalachian life, is equal parts uncompromising and compassionate, and able to eerily channel a wide spectrum of distinctive voices—coal miners, musicians, pill poppers, snake handlers, writers, marijuana farmers, brutal men and complicated women, knowing children and dangerous elders—all of them filled with yearning, all of them inextricably bound to their time and place. An extraordinary debut collection. —K. L. Cook, Author of Love Songs for the Quarantined and Last Call
Author
Sheldon Lee Compton is a short story writer, poet, novelist, and memoirist from Pike County, Kentucky. He is the author of the short story collections The Same Terrible Storm (Foxhead Books, 2012), Where Alligators Sleep (Foxhead Books, 2014), Absolute Invention (Secret History Books, 2019) and Sway (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2020). Compton is also the author of the novels Brown Bottle (Bottom Dog Press, 2016), Alice and the Wendigo (Secret History Books, 2017), and Dysphoria (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2019). His poetry chapbook Podunk Lore, was part of the Lantern Lit series (Dog On a Chain Press, 2018) and his first full-length poetry collection Runaways was published 2021 by Alien Buddha Press. In 2021 Cowboy Jamboree Press published The Collected Stories of Sheldon Lee Compton. On the anniversary of Breece D'J Pancake Cowboy Jamboree Press published his memoir The Orchard Is Full of Sound: One author's connection with Breece D'J Pancake. In 2012, he was a finalist for both the Gertrude Stein Fiction Award and the Still Fiction Award. His writing has been nominated for the Chaffin Award for Excellence in Appalachian Writing, the Pushcart Prize, and was twice longlisted for Wigleaf's Top 50 in 2015 and 2019. He was cited twice for Best Small Fictions, in 2015 and 2016, before having his short story "Aversion" included in Best Small Fictions 2019. Aside from his primary writing, he is the founder and editor of the literary journal Revolution John and the founder and curator of the interview project Chaos Questions: Strange Interviews with Amazing People.
