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Tina Cane was born in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC in 1969 and grew up in the city’s East and West Village. She attended the University of Vermont, the Sorbonne and completed her master’s degree in French Literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and Middlebury College. She is the founder and director of Writers-in-the Schools, RI, for which she works as a visiting poet. Over the past twenty-five years, Tina has taught French, English, and creative writing in public and private schools throughout New York City and Rhode Island. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including American Poetry Review, Spinning Jenny, Poetry, The Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Common, Texas Review, and Poem-a-Day. Her work, The Fifth Thought, was the 2008 Other Painters Press chapbook winner. Tina's books include The Fifth Thought,Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, Once More With Feeling, and Body of Work. Tina was the 2016 recipient for the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and their three children. In 2020, Cane was named a poet laureate fellow with the Academyof American Poets. Tina is also the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread, the editor of Poetry is Bread:The Anthology (Nirala Publications, March 2025). Alma Presses Play, Tina's debut verse novel for young adults readers, was released in September 2021 with Penguin/ Random House Books. Are You Nobody Too?,Cane's most recent novel-in-verse for middle-grade readers, came out in September 2024. |
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