Tina Kane (née Reynolds) moved to Melbourne from the U.S. at the age of six and later returned to the States to attend university. She earned a Masters degree in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and, in 1979, went to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she is a Conservator in the Department of Textile Conservation. She also teaches in the English Department and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1984-1985, she was Conservator in Residence at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne. With her husband, Paul Kane, she divides her time between homes in Warwick, New York, and Talbot, in rural Victoria.
