About Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nye's work has been featured on PBS poetry specials including NOW with Bill Moyers, The Language of Life with Bill Moyers, and The United States of Poetry. She has traveled abroad as a visiting writer on three Arts America tours sponsored by the United States Information Agency. In 2001 she received a presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Novels
Collections
Different Ways to Pray (poems) (1980)
On the Edge of the Sky: A Collection of New Poems (poems) (1981)
Hugging the Jukebox (poems) (1982)
Yellow Glove (poems) (1986)
Travel Alarm (poems) (1992)
The Children of Nigh (poems) (1993)
Red Suitcase (poems) (1994)
The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (poems) (1994)
Fuel (poems) (1998)
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs (poems) (1999) (with Paul B Janeczko)
Come with Me: Poems for a Journey (poems) (2000)
Mint Snowball (poems) (2001)
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (poems) (2002)
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls (poems) (2005)
You and Yours (poems) (2005)
Honeybee (poems) (2008)
Transfer (poems) (2011)
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Quintero and Jane Yolen)
There Is No Long Distance Now (2011)
On the Edge of the Sky: A Collection of New Poems (poems) (1981)
Hugging the Jukebox (poems) (1982)
Yellow Glove (poems) (1986)
Travel Alarm (poems) (1992)
The Children of Nigh (poems) (1993)
Red Suitcase (poems) (1994)
The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (poems) (1994)
Fuel (poems) (1998)
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs (poems) (1999) (with Paul B Janeczko)
Come with Me: Poems for a Journey (poems) (2000)
Mint Snowball (poems) (2001)
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (poems) (2002)
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls (poems) (2005)
You and Yours (poems) (2005)
Honeybee (poems) (2008)
Transfer (poems) (2011)
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Quintero and Jane Yolen)
There Is No Long Distance Now (2011)
Chapbooks
Picture Books
Anthologies edited
Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico with Paintings By Mexican Artists (1995)
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World (1996)
The Space Between Our Footsteps (1998)
What Have You Lost? (1999)
Salting the Ocean (2000)
The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East (2002)
Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas (2004)
Time You Let Me in: 25 Poets Under 25 (2010)
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World (1996)
The Space Between Our Footsteps (1998)
What Have You Lost? (1999)
Salting the Ocean (2000)
The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East (2002)
Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas (2004)
Time You Let Me in: 25 Poets Under 25 (2010)
Non fiction
Between Heaven and Texas (2006)
I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You Ok?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven (2007)
I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You Ok?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven (2007)
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