Shane McCrae is the author of 10 full-length books of poetry, most recently New and Collected Hell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025). He has edited a volume of John Berryman's uncollected Dream Songs, titled Only Sing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and is the poetry editor for Image. McCrae's awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer's Award, and 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.