Naomi Shihab Nye

Palestinian-American writer, editor, and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she continues to live. She has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world. Her books include Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Fuel, Transfer, Voices in the Air, Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Turtle of Oman and The Turtle of Michigan have both been part of the Little Read program, North Carolina. She received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters and the National Book Critics Circle.

Also available through the SFZC Online Store:

Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose
Cast Away: Poems for Our Time
Words Under the Word: Selected Poems
There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories