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and singer, she lives with her husband, photographer Michael Nye and son, Madison, in San Antonio, Texas.

She has traveled abroad on three USIA-sponsored Arts America speaking tours throughout the Middle East and Asia.

spring 1994 from Four Winds Press/Macmillan, which also published her award-winning collection of poems from around the world, This Same Sky, in 1992. She has received three Pushcart Prizes, two Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prizes, the Charity Randall Prize for Spoken Poetry from the International Poetry Forum, and the I. B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets.

In 1994, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems will appear from Far Corner Books and Eighth Mountain Press in Oregon.

Different Ways to Pray, Hugging the Jukebox (the National Poetry Series and an ALA Notable Book), and Yellow Glove.

Naomi Shihab Nye’s poems and stories have appeared in numerous textbooks and anthologies.

are in memory of Izzat Shihab Idais Al-Zer.

is in memory of Leonora Allwardt.

is in memory of Della Hobrecht.

is in memory of Danny Lozano.