Shane McCrae's most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) and Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.