Tina Cane is the author of the poetry collections YEAR OF THE MURDER HORNET (Veliz Books 2022), BODY OF WORK (Veliz Books, 2019), and ONCE MORE WITH FEELING (Veliz Books, 2017). She has also published the chapbooks Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante (Skillman Avenue Press, 2016) and The Fifth Thought (Other Painters Press, 2008). 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. Cane's poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals including Spinning Jenny , Tupelo Quarterly , Cargo , Two Serious Ladies , The Birmingham Review and The Good Men Project . She is the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread. Her debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) was released in 2021.