# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/naomi-shihab-nye
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:00:44.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/naomi-shihab-nye"
name: "Naomi Shihab Nye"
slug: "naomi-shihab-nye"
description: "Naomi Shihab Nye is a Palestinian American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total, she has published more than thirty-five books and contributed to hundreds of others. Her works include poetry, young-adult fiction, picture books, and novels. Nye has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, served as the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate for the 2019–22 terms, and, in 2024, she received the Wallace Stevens Award and the Texas Writers Award."
tagline: "American writer (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Naomishihabnye.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.682656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump