A resident of San Antonio, Texas, since she was a high school student, Nye has drawn increasing public and critical recognition for her poetry as well as for editing collections of Mexican and Middle Eastern verse. In her poems, Nye often adopts an incantatory and didactive voice to capture and comment on the metaphysical and ethical essence of such diverse subject matter as Texas landscapes, elderly people, and popular culture. The result is poetry that is playfully and imaginatively instructive, borrows from Eastern and Middle Eastern and Native American religions, and resembles the meditative poetry of William Stafford, Wallace Stevens, and Gary Snyder.

Source: Gale In Context: Biography: Contemporary Women Poets