Shane McCrae is the author of seven books of poetry: Sometimes I Never Suffered, to be published in June, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; The Gilded Auction Block, also published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 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, and won the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry; The Animal Too Big to Kill, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness; Blood; and Mule.