2024 - 2025
Shane McCrae’s most recent books of poems are Cain Named the Animal, a finalist for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award, and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. New and Collected Hell, his newest book of poems, was published in February 2025. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. Also, in 20 he was awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his other awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer's Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.