Tina Cane

Born and raised in New York City, Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island

where she is the founder and director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. Her poems and translations

have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Spinning Jenny,

Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat and The Common. She also co-produces, with Atticus Allen,

the podcast, Poetry Dose.

Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008), Dear Elena:

Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art \by Esther Solondz (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016),

Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books, 2017) and Body of Work (Veliz Books, 2019).In 2016,

Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry, from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

She is also a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets and the creator/curator

of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread.