An Evening with Naomi Shihab Nye

Please join Texas Book Festival and El Paso Community Foundation for an evening with multi-award winning author Naomi Shihab Nye.

The author will be reading from her work and be in conversation with another author at the historic Philanthropy Theatre (125 Pioneer Plaza, El Paso, TX, 79901). The event will conclude with an audience Q&A followed by a book signing, with books available for purchase before and after the event thanks to Barnes & Noble.

The event is free with RSVP.

Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas. A graduate of Trinity University, she has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world, currently at Texas State University. Her books include Grace Notes, Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air, Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, This Same Sky, & The Tree is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Turtle of Oman and The Turtle of Michigan have both been part of the Little Read program, North Carolina. She received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters, The National Book Critics Circle (Ivan Sandrof Award), the Arab American Museum, and the National Book Critics Circle.

Host or Publisher Texas Book Festival in partnership with El Paso Community Foundation