Jennifer Wallace teaches poetry, academic writing and ecology at MICA. She also coordinates the Minors Program. She has worked as an urban planner, naturalist and environmental educator, and as a freelance writer and editor. She is a poetry editor at The Cortland Review and a founding editor of Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, Minor Heaven, appears in Desire Path (Toadlily Press, 2005). She a co-editor of the chapbook, Voices from Behind Bars: A Collection of Women's Writings from the Westchester County Correctional Facility and directed a short documentary,
Inter : View, A Conversation About Nature and the City (2009). Her poems appear in numerous literary journals and most recently in the anthology, Beloved: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press). A new book of poems and photographs, It Can be Solved by Walking, explores memory and identity in Baltimore's urban ecosystem; it will be published by CityLit Press in 2012.