Naomi Shihab Nye is the editor of This Same Sky, A Collection of Poems from Around the World. Her first picture book for children, Sitti's Secrets, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, appeared from Four Winds Press in 1994. Later this year, she will publish Red Suitcase, a new book of poems (BOA Editions), and Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Far Corner Books and Eighth Mountain Press). She lives in San Antonio, Texas.