Shane McCrae
Poet
Shane McCrae’s most recent books are “Sometimes I Never Suffered,” a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Rilke Prize, and “Cain Named the Animal,” both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
