Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and served as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island (2016-2024. Cane’s books include Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, Once More With Feeling, Body of Work, Year of the Murder Hornet (Veliz Books), and the verse novels for younger readers, Alma Presses Play, and Are You Nobody Too? (Penguin/Random House). She also curates the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread, and the weekly poetry feature, Sound and Vision, in The Providence Eye.