Naomi Shihab Nye will join host Cheryl Jones to talk about her book Transfer, which Naomi wrote in response to the death of her father. Join us on Good Grief Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time.
Phoenix, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/04/2015 -- Cheryl Jones, host of Good Grief radio, is proud to announce that her guest for November 4, 2015 will be Naomi Shihab Nye. Naomi lives in old downtown San Antonio, Texas, a block from the sleepy river. She has written or edited 30 previous books including Red Suitcase, Fuel, and You and Yours with BOA Editions, Ltd. Her collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her collection Honeybee was awarded an Arab-American Book Award. Her poetry anthologies include Time You Let Me In, What Have You Lost?, and This Same Sky.She is also the author of the novels Habibi and Going. Her book of short-short fiction from Greenwillow books is called There is No Distance Now. She is the two-time winner of the Jane Addams Book Award for Peace & Justice, and four-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, as wekk as the recipient of several fellowships, including a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. She is currently serving on the Board of Chancellors for the Academy of American Poets.
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