Nye travels the United States and abroad extensively giving readings, workshops, and acting as an ambassador of American poetry. Promotion will piggyback on this momentum: 100 perfect bound uncorrected proofs with press releases will be mailed out, press kits will be provided, national ads placed. Postcards will be distributed to bookstores, universities, literary centers and targeted individuals. No competing titles.
Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, essayist, anthologist, has been a
recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the
Guggenheim Foundation and the Witter Bynner Foundation/Library of
Congress. Author of more than twenty volumes, her recent books
include Mint Snowball and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the
Middle East which was selected as a National Book Award finalist in
2002. Her books of poems include Fuel (BOA Editions) and Red
Suitcase (BOA). Nye's work has been featured on the PBS poetry
specials NOW with Bill Moyers , The Language of Life with Bill
Moyers and The United States of Poetry . She has read her work on
National Public Radio's Prairie Home Companion. Poetry editor for
The Texas Observer, Nye has worked for as a visiting writer in
schools at all educational levels. She lives in San Antonio,
Texas.
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