Kira Compton
BIO
Kira Compton is bad at writing bios, as well as several more important things. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Boise State. There, she was the first place recipient of the 2023 and 2024 Glenn Balch Awards. Starting in Fall 2024, she will be the Associate Editor of The Idaho Review. Her success in the classroom led to her being the first to receive the Educational Assistant Position, which trains incoming graduate students to run their own creative writing classrooms.
She is a teaching writer at the Cabin, Boise's local writing organization. There, she has taught several fiction workshops.
Compton is also a proud member of the Hemingway Society, where she is a Hinkle Scholar and will present at the Hemingway Conference in San Sebastián this summer. She plans to avoid bringing up Ernest Hemingway for the entirety of her half-hour presentation about Martha Gellhorn.
Outside of her professional life, she loves playing DnD, chess, and obscure narrative video games. You can stalk her personal life on Instagram @kirajcompton.
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Publications
By "Select", I mean there was poetry at one point. Don't worry. I won't subject you to it.
Fiction
"If You Stay Too Long It Will Kill You" - The Saranac Review, May 2024
"Witch Sister" - hex literary, June 2024
"(the sound of children screaming has been removed)" - Aquifer: The Florida Review, October 2024
Nonfiction
"At the Bar" - Into the Void, 2020
-nominated for a Best of the Net
Interviews
An Interview with Whitney Collins - The Idaho Review, 2024
An Interview with Morgan Talty - The Idaho Review, 2024
An Interview with Gina Chung - The Idaho Review, 2024
An Interview with Elizabeth Gonzalez James - The Idaho Review, 2024
An Interview with Dana Winsmith - The Idaho Review, 2023
Theater and Film
"Mitch McConnell is Dead!" (One Act)
-2020, Virtual production, raised over $1600 for the Fair Fight Initiative
"The Phone Play" (One Act)
-2018, produced by the Hudson One Act Festival
CONTACT
If you have my email, use it! If you don't, find me on Instagram, or scream into your pillow. I'll do my best to answer, either way.
Shocking you read this far. Thank you <3