Shane McCrae
- January 10, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Shane McCrae |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Date Of Birth | Sep 22, 1975(1975-09-22) |
| Age | 49 |
| Birthplace | Portland |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Virgo |
Shane McCrae Biography
| Name | Shane McCrae |
| Birthday | Sep 22 |
| Birth Year | 1975 |
| Place Of Birth | Portland |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
Shane McCrae is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on September 22, 1975 in Portland, United States. Shane McCrae (born September 22 in 1975, Portland, Oregon) is a poet from the United States. American poet from the United States.
McCrae was the winner of the 2011 Whiting Award, and in 2012, his Mule collection Mule made it to the finals of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. in 2013, McCrae got a scholarship from National Endowment for the Arts. He was awarded an award from the Lannan Literary Award in 2017 and in 2018, his collection In The Language of My Captor won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and in 2019 , he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.
McCrae was an assistant professor in the Creative Writing program at Oberlin College 2015–2017 and is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing MFA program at Columbia University.
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.
He is the poet behind the poetry collection Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011,), Blood (Noemi Press 2013, 2013) Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press 2014) the book The Animal Too Big To Kill (Persea Books in 2015) The Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press 2017) and the Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019,).
Shane McCrae Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Shane McCrae is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shane McCrae 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He quit high school, and then obtained the GED certificate. He was a student at Chemeketa Community College. He graduated in 2002. McCrae completed his studies at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. He received an M.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. In 2007 the student was a graduate of Harvard Law School with a JD. He graduated in 2012 and graduated with an M.A. Arts at University of Iowa. University of Iowa.
As of 2011, McCrae won the Whiting Award and in 2012 Mule, his book collection Mule was one of the finalist books to the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award.
The Animal Too Big to Kill won the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award.
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Facts & Trivia
Shane Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shane McCrae celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.
Is Shane McCrae black?
Shane McCrae is a mixed-race American poet, who, at the age of three, was taken to Texas by his grandparents – who were white supremacists – away from his black father who had, until then, been bringing him up.
How do you live like a poet?
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy.
- Submissive to everything, open, listening.
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house.
- Be in love with yr life.
- Something that you feel will find its own form.
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
Do poets write every day?
Do you write everyday? No, not at all. When I’m in the ‘zone’ I’m incredibly prolific, but I often have long fallow periods, especially between books. To be honest, in the poetry world if you produce 60 pages every five years that’s fine, there’s no pressure.
How do you think poetically?
- Try An Experimental Form. Experimental poetry introduces elements of play and exploration into practice and allows us to challenge the established use of language, reviving our point of view. …
- Use Your Dreams to Explore Myths and Symbols. …
- Create a Mind Map.
What is a poet's life?
A Poet’s Life: On Making, On Being, On Surviving with Professor Jay Deshpande ’12. A Poet’s Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet.