Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, a Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award finalist. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, the Nation, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, and Poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Stegner Fellowship Program, and the Fulbright Commission. An assistant professor of English and creative writing at...See more

Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, a Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award finalist. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, the Nation, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, and Poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Stegner Fellowship Program, and the Fulbright Commission. An assistant professor of English and creative writing at Northwestern University, Charif lives in Chicago, Illinois. See less