Biography
Tina Cane was born in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. She’s the author of four books of poetry and a debut novel-in-verse for young readers, Alma Presses Play (2021)—about a girl who is half-Chinese, half Jewish, growing up in NYC.
In her most recent poetry collection, Year of the Murder Hornet (2022), Cane wrestles with anxieties about politics, poetry, love, motherhood, and pathogens. In Body of Work (2019), which won a Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, she investigates the changing landscape of New York City, and motherhood.
Cane was the poet laureate of Rhode Island for five years. She is founder and director of Writers-in-the Schools, RI, for which she works as a visiting poet. Over the past twenty-five years, she has taught French, English, and creative writing throughout New York City and Rhode Island. She lives just outside of Provincetown.