The Gilded Auction Block: Poems - Shane Mccrae

McCrae, Shane: - Shane McCrae is the author of In the Language of My Captor , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Animal Too Big to Kill , winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky / Editor's Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness ; Blood ; and Mule . He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.