Naomi Nye lived her younger years in Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas, and was raised by her father, a Palestinian refugee, and her mother, a person that has genetic ties to the Swiss and Germans. The cultural differences and conditions that Nye grew up around impacts her poetry and her writing style, as well as the topics she chooses to write about. Nye is described as being someone who, “observes the business of living and the continuity among all the world’s inhabitants...she is international in scope and internal in focus” (Dictionary of Literary Biography). She expresses through her poetry that she is a globally literate person who is able to comprehend the viewpoints of multiple groups of people. It is written that, “After the World Trade
