Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023), which was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award. He is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Northwestern University.