Naomi
Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, anthologist, has been a recipient
of writing fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim
Foundation and the Witter Bynner Foundation/Library of Congress.
Author or editor of more than thirty volumes, her most recent collection of poems, Transfer, is forthcoming from BOA Editions, Ltd in September of 2011. Her collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems
of the Middle East which was selected as a National Book
Award finalist in 2002, and her collection Honeybee was awarded an Arab-American Book Award. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and the recent You & Yours. She is the author of the novels Habibi and Going, Going, as well as the collection of short fiction There Is No Long Distance Now, published with Greenwillow Books. Nye's
work has been featured on the PBS poetry specials NOW with
Bill Moyers , The Language of Life with Bill Moyers
and The United States of Poetry. The two-time winner of the Jane Addams Book Award for Peace & Justice and four-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, Nye is also the recipient of several fellowships, including a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. She has read
her work on National Public Radio's Prairie Home Companion.
Poetry editor for The Texas Observer, Nye
has worked for as a visiting writer in schools at all educational
levels. She is currently serving on the Board of Chancellors for the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
