Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her B.A. in English and world religions from Trinity University. She is a novelist, poet and songwriter. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2010.
Books
Words Under the Words
Selected Poems
1994
The Space Between Our Footsteps
Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
1998
19 Varieties of Gazelle
Poems of the Middle East
1994
Come With Me
2000
Is This Forever, or What?
Poems & Paintings from Texas
2004
Collected Poems of Naomi Shihab Nye
2020
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
Tender Spot
Selected Poems
2015
Benito's Dream Bottle
1995
Mint Snowball
2001
Everything Comes Next
Collected and New Poems
2020
Famous
2015
The Turtle of Oman
2014
Time You Let Me In
25 Poets under 25
2010
A Maze Me
Poems for Girls
2005
You & Yours
2005
Honeybee
Poems & Short Prose
2008
I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?
Tales of Driving and Being Driven
2007
Dear Vaccine
2022
Voices in the Air
Poems for Listeners
2018
Red Suitcase
1994
Fuel
1998
Going Going
2005
There Is No Long Distance Now
2011
Salting the Ocean
100 Poems by Young Poets
2000
Grace Notes
Poems about Families
2024
Hugging the Jukebox
1982
The Tiny Journalist
2019
The Tree Is Older Than You Are
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico With Paintings by Mexican Artists
1995
Cast Away
Poems for Our Time
2020
Habibi
1997
This Same Sky
A Collection of Poems from Around the World
1992
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You
A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs
1996
Baby Radar
2003
Travel Alarm
1992
Lullaby Raft
1997
Sitti's Secrets
1994
Transfer
2011
Never in a Hurry
Essays on People and Places
1996
The Turtle of Michigan
2022
