Kristine Crane is a post-doctoral associate in the University Writing Program at The University of Florida, where she teaches various writing courses. She holds a doctorate in communications from The University of Florida, where she taught and created several journalism courses at the College of Journalism and Communications. She was also an adjunct in the Italian department at UF. She began teaching in the Cagli Project in the summer of 2024, and she teaches both writing and Italian language. She began her journalism career in Rome, Italy, when she had a Fulbright scholarship to study migration there; she wrote for several English-language publications including The Wall Street Journal, Religion News Service and Catholic News Service. She helped the WSJ cover the papal transition following the death of Pope John Paul II, and was nominated for the Peter R. Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She was also one of the founding writers of the English-language start-up The American in Italia, for which she still writes a monthly column called l’Americana. Upon returning to the U.S., she earned a Master’s in science reporting from the Columbia School of Journalism, and worked as a health reporter and editor for U.S. News & World Report and other publications. She won the Florida Sunshine State Award for health reporting in 2014. She also holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Pacific University, and her poems and essays have been published in various literary journals.