Naomi Shihab Nye received her B.A. in English and World Religions from Trinity University. Nye is an acclaimed poet, songwriter, and novelist; she has also worked as an editor, primarily in poetry anthologies.
Nye is the author of a novel, Habibi (1997), and numerous books of poems, including: You and Yours (2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002); Fuel (1998); Red Suitcase (1994); Yellow Glove (1986); Hugging the Jukebox (1982); and Different Ways to Pray (1980).
Nye has received awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, the International Poetry Forum, as well as four Pushcart Prizes, in addition to receiving fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Witter Bynner Foundation. In 1988 she received The Academy of American Poets’ Lavan Award. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. Elected in January 2010, Nye sits on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.
Her essay, Bread, appeared in Issue 3.1 Winter 1991 in addition to a review of her collection, You and Yours, featured in Issue 18.1 Winter/Spring 2005.
