“Your relationship with yourself is retrospective in a way—in many ways, surely—your relationships with others cannot be.”
~ Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by 
Cain Named the Animal by 
The Many Hundreds of the Scent by 
Photo Credit: Shane McCrae for Macmillan
Shane McCrae’s most recent books of poetry 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. His powerful memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, published in 2023, describes his traumatic upbringing after being kidnapped by his grandparents when he was 3 years old. Also in 2023, he was awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Other awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer’s Award. McCrae 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.
Arthur Rense Poetry Prize (2023)
Awarded every three years and is presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and amounts to $20,000 to an exceptional poet.
Michael Marks Award (2022)
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets were established in 2009 to promote the pamphlet form and to enable poets and publishers both to develop and to continue creating. from Michael Marks Award Website
Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)
A Guggenheim is an award given to 175 people every year and consists of funds given to writers to enable them to pursue their projects. This is a very prestigious honor!
Whiting Writers’ Award (2011)
"Since 1985, the Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The awards, of $50,000 each, are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come." from the Whiting Award Website
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