Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and
editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable
international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is
Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The
Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle
East. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words
Under the Words. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the
young adult novel Habibi, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a
Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams
Children’s Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award
from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio,
Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison.
Paul B. Kaneczko has been a writer, poet, speaker, and
teacher and has edited numerous distinguished anthologies for young
people, including Poetspeak, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, the
ALA Notable book, The Place My Words Are Looking For,
and Poetry from A to Z: A Guide for Young Writers. His third
book of poetry is That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems. He lives in
Hebron, Maine, with his wife, Nadine, and their daughter, Emma.
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