About Toni Bee

Toni Bee is a Boston-raised, Cambridge-based poet, writer, performer, and teaching artist who turns history into something people read out loud, write into, and carry home—building workshops, public readings, and youth curricula that treat the past as material to work with, not just study. She is Cambridge’s first woman elected Poet Populist and the city’s inaugural Poetry Ambassador, and founder and curator of Poets in the Garden at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site.

 

Bee is a 2024–2025 GrubStreet Teaching Fellow and has served as a teaching artist with the Boch Center. She was featured on GBH’s Rooted in August 2025 and is co-author,, of “Reading and Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters in Boston” (2022, Early American Literature). Her writing appears in Boog City, Best Indie Lit New England, and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. in Communication from Simmons University and is an ATD Certified Trainer and Facilitator.