Naomi Shihab Nye：主题演讲

Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a "wandering poet." 她花了40多年的时间在全国和世界各地领导写作研讨会，并激励所有年龄段的学生。 奈伊的父亲是巴勒斯坦人，母亲是美国人，他在圣路易斯、耶路撒冷和圣安东尼奥长大。 凭借她的巴勒斯坦裔美国人血统，她在德克萨斯州的家的文化多样性，以及她在亚洲、欧洲、加拿大、墨西哥和中东旅行的经历，奈用她的作品证明了我们共同的人性。

Naomi Shihab Nye是30多本书的作者和/或编辑。 Her books of poetry for adults and children include 19种瞪羚：中东诗歌 (a finalist for the National Book Award),迷宫我：给女孩的诗，红色手提箱，字里行间的文字，燃料，转移，你和你的 (a best-selling poetry book of 2006), 薄荷雪球，《空气中的声音：给听众的诗》，《跟我来：给旅途的诗》，蜜蜂 (awarded the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children's/Young Adult category), 小记者 (Best Poetry Book from both the Texas Institute of Letters and the Writers League of Texas), 《丢弃：我们这个时代的诗歌 (one of the Washington Post's best children's books of 2020), and 接下来是《诗集》和《新诗》. Her new poetry book for children is Grace Notes：关于家庭的诗。 Kirkus gave it a star and called it "Beautifully written poetry about the butterfly effect of human experience."

Nye's collections of essays include 从不着急， and I'll Ask You Three Times, Are you Okay? She has edited several poetry anthologies including 当你让我进入这同一片天空时，我在你身边感到有点不安, and 你失去了什么？. She also edited an anthology on the COVID-19 pandemic titled 亲爱的疫苗：全球之声与大流行对话。 Nye co-edited a book with Marion Winik titled 我知道一千件事：德克萨斯州乌瓦尔德的安·亚历杭德罗的作品。

Nye's fiction books for young people include 哈比比，走啊，走啊，现在没有远距离了，阿曼的乌龟， and its sequel, 密歇根龟。 阿曼龟 was chosen a Horn Book Best Book of 2014, a 2015 Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association, and was awarded the 2015 Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature. Her picture books include Baby Radar, Sitti's Secrets, and 著名的。

Naomi Shihab Nye是lanan Fellow， Guggenheim Fellow和Witter Bynner Fellow（国会图书馆）。 She has also been the recipient of many awards and prizes including a Lavan Award, Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, four Pushcart Prizes, Robert Creeley Prize, NSK Neustadt Award for Children's Literature, May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award, Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement, two Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement, the 2024 Texas Writer Award and the 2024 Wallace Stevens Award. 2021年，她被选为美国艺术与科学院院士。

奈在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的米切纳作家中心工作了20年，还在《德克萨斯观察家报》担任了20年的诗歌编辑。 2019-2020年，她担任《纽约时报》诗歌杂志的编辑。 她是美国诗人学会的名誉院长，也是德克萨斯州立大学诗歌创作教授。

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克里斯汀•凯斯是一位屡获殊荣的诗人和小说家，她的作品涉及多个流派。 Her background in dance has impacted her work—she consistently addresses intersections between language and body. 她是七本诗集的作者，并获得了皮尤基金会、宾夕法尼亚艺术委员会、佛蒙特工作室中心、Subcircle和夏季文学研讨会的奖学金。 Coffee House Press published her debut speculative novel—手法。 She has lived in Iowa, New York, Georgia, and Maryland—and currently resides in Northeast Pennsylvania with her partner. Her work has been called “gothic and intense,” “inventive and exhilarating,” and “as fascinating as it is disturbing.” Her new novel, 乌鸦的不可能， won the Juniper Prize from University of Massachusetts Press.