About Toni Bee

Toni Bee is a Boston-born poet, teaching artist, and event producer who creates workshops, public readings, festivals, and youth curricula by threading history, nature, and social issues through a poetic and creative lens. She has been a featured poet at The Cantab, Lizard Lounge, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, and the New England Poetry Club, and has served as a panelist at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival.

 

Bee is the founder and curator of Poets in the Garden, presented at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site. A 2024–2025 GrubStreet Teaching Fellow, she has worked as a teaching artist and storyteller with the Boch Center’s City Spotlights Teen Leadership program. She has also facilitated workshops with the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) and Writers Without Margins.

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Toni has held the titles of : GrubStreet Teaching Fellow, Cambridge Inaugural Poetry Ambassador, Cambridge Poet Populist . Bee's work includes speaking of literacy on GBH’s Rooted, a 2022 Early American Literature essay “Reading and Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters in Boston”, and her self publication of a chapbook 22 Again (2018).

She holds a B.A. from Simmons University and is certified by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) as a Trainer and Facilitator.

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