Shane McCrae

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Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon)[1] is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image.[2]

McCrae was the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award,[3] and in 2012 his collection Mule was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award[4] and a PEN Center USA Literary Award.[5] In 2013, McCrae received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[6] He received a Lannan Literary Award[7] in 2017, in 2018 his collection In the Language of My Captor won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,[8] and in 2019 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[9]

His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Fence, and AGNI.[3]

Early life and education

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Born in Portland, Oregon to a white mother and black father, he was kidnapped by his maternal grandparents when he was three years old and raised him to believe that his father had abandoned him.[10] His grandfather was a white supremacist who abused him.[10] They moved to California when he was 10 years old,[1][11] and he grew up in Texas and California.[12] He did not see his father again until he was 16.[10]

He dropped out of high school and later earned a GED certificate and had a child at 18.[11][10] He attended Chemeketa Community College.[1] In 2002, McCrae graduated from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.[13] In 2004, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in Iowa City.[14] In 2007, he graduated from Harvard Law School with a JD.[14][12] In 2012, he earned a Master of Arts from the University of Iowa.[14]

Career

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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).[20]

Awards

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In 2011, McCrae received the Whiting Award,[3] and in 2012 his collection Mule was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award[4] and a PEN Center USA Literary Award.[5]

The Animal Too Big to Kill won the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award.[21]

In the Language of My Captor was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and a winner of the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.[8]

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

Sometimes I Never Suffered was shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize.[22]

In 2020, McCrae received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship.[23]

Works

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  • In Canaan, Milwaukee: Rescue Press, 2010. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 707718211
  • Mule, Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 732166609
  • Blood, Noemi Press, 2013. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 931029174
  • Nonfiction, Pittsburgh, PA: Black Lawrence Press, 2014. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 833301672
  • Forgiveness Forgiveness, Hadley, MA: Factory Hollow Press, 2014. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 890624391
  • The Animal Too Big to Kill, New York: Persea Books, 2015. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 913514526
  • In the Language of My Captor Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2017. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 1018464460
  • The Gilded Auction Block, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 1035365132
  • Sometimes I Never Suffered, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 1182576051
  • Cain Named the Animal, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 1246143402
  • Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping, New York: Scribner, 2023. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 1390879054
  • The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., OCLC 1344332594

References

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  7. ^ a b Shane McCrae 2017 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, lannan.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  8. ^ a b Evone Jeffries, 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are Announced, Ohio Center for the Book, March 30, 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  9. ^ a b John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, gf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
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  15. ^ Shane McCrae Assistant Professor at Oberlin College — Creative Writing, Oberlin College & Conservatory. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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  21. ^ Persea Books, perseabooks.com. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  22. ^ The T. S. Eliot Foundation, tseliot.com. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  23. ^ New York Foundation for the Arts, nyfa.org. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
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