Distinguished Author & Poet Naomi Shihab Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her work including the Wallace Stevens Award for lifetime achievement in 2024 and Texas Writer of the Year in the same year. She has authored several books of poetry, short stories, essays, picture books, and novels for children. Born on March 12, 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she gives voice to her experience as an Arab American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. In total, she has published more than thirty-five books and contributed to hundreds of others. 

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She has taught at several universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is Professor of Creative Writing - Poetry at Texas State University.  She served as the poetry editor at the Texas Observer for over 20 years as well as for for the New York Times Magazine from 2019 to 2020. She has also edited several anthologies.

 

She was Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2009-2014.

 

Naomi Shihab Nye is  considered as one of the leading female poets of the American Southwest.​Her recent books include Grace Notes, Voices in the Air, and Everything Comes Next.

 

Her list of published works can be viewed here.​​​​​​​​