Tina Cane

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.

https://www.tinacane.ink/