Tina Cane

Tina Cane was born in Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City and grew up in the East and West Village. She earned her BA at the University of Vermont and her MA in French literature at Middlebury College. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante (with art by Esther Solondz, Skillman Avenue Press, 2016), Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017), Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019), and Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books, 2022). Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Two Serious Ladies, The Tupelo Quarterly, jubilat, and The Common.

Cane is the founder/ director of Writers-in- the-Schools, RI and is an instructor with the writing community, Frequency Providence. In 2016, she received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and she currently serves as the poet laureate of Rhode Island, where she lives with her husband and their three children.