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]

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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

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

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

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 Weisblum, Vida (12 September 2014). "Shane McCrae Debuts Vulnerable Poetry Collection" . Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Image Journal Staff". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  3. 1 2 3 "This Year's Award Winners | Whiting Writers' Awards | Programs | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation". Whitingfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
  4. 1 2 "Claremont Graduate University News and Events Index". Cgu.edu. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
  5. 1 2 "Announcing the 2012 Literary Award Winners". Archived from the original on August 18, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ "NEA: FY 2013 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing (Poetry)". Nea.gov. Archived from the original on 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
  7. 1 2 Shane McCrae 2017 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, lannan.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  8. 1 2 Evone Jeffries, 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are Announced, Ohio Center for the Book, March 30, 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  9. 1 2 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, gf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Gibson, Lydialyle (2018-10-16). "Coming Apart Together". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  11. 1 2 "User account – Graduate College of The University of Iowa". Grad.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  12. 1 2 "Shane McCrae". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "Linfield grad lands one of the country's top writing awards". Linfield.edu. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  14. 1 2 3 "Shane McCrae – Arts and Sciences – Oberlin College". oberlin.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  15. ↑ Shane McCrae Assistant Professor at Oberlin College — Creative Writing, Oberlin College & Conservatory. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  16. ↑ "Full-time faculty; Columbia University". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
  17. ↑ "Poetry Center || Cleveland State University". Csuohio.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-08-03. Retrieved 2013-08-10.
  18. ↑ "In the Language of My Captor".
  19. ↑ "Cain Named the Animal". Archived from the original on 2023-04-04. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
  20. ↑ McCrae, Shane (August 2023). Pulling the Chariot of the Sun. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-6680-2174-3.
  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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