Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon)[1] is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image.

[10] He dropped out of high school and later earned a GED certificate and had a child at 18.

[14] McCrae was an assistant professor in the Creative Writing program at Oberlin College 2015–2017[15] and is an associate professor in the Creative Writing MFA program at Columbia University.

[16] He is the author of the poetry collections Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011),[17] Blood (Noemi Press, 2013), Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press, 2014), The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015), In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017),[18]  The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) Cain Named the Animal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022),[19] and Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping (Scribner, 2023).

[8] McCrae received a Lannan Literary Award[7] in 2018, and a Guggenheim Fellowship[9] in 2019.