Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and, from 2016-2024, served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and three children. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz, Once More With Feeling (Veliz Books,2017), and Body of Work (Veliz Books,2019). She was a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets and the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread, as well as editor of the forthcoming Poetry is Bread: The Anthology, (Nirala, 2025. Her most recent poetry collection is Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books,2022), and her debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) was released in September 2021. Her second verse novel for young readers, Are You Nobody Too? (Penguin/ Random House) was published in August 2024.