Jennifer Maloney is the current president of Just Poets, Inc, a literary organization celebrating 15 years bringing poetry into the public sphere around Rochester and western New York State. Jennifer has lived in Rochester, NY since 1985, after growing up in more rural environs. She writes from a place of addiction and recovery, from bone-deep knowledge of poverty, from the wilds of mental illness, and with gratitude for the love she has given and received. Her poetry has been published in aaduna.org, The Pangolin Review, and Memoryhouse Magazine. Her poetry has been anthologized in Volumes 4 and 5 of the Poets Speak…While We Still Can anthology, in Missing Persons: Reflections on Alzheimer’s Disease, and in Volume 7 of ImageOutWrite, a collection of poetry and stories of the lived experience of the LGBTQ+A community and allies. She is proud of the first short story she’s written since high school having recently been published in A Flash of Dark, Volume 2, a journal of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Jennifer is the founder and curator of Just Poets Presents! a reading series dedicated to the voices of under-heard and marginalized poets, breaking regional boundaries to bring these poets to the Rochester stage, and perhaps most importantly, paying them! Jennifer is happiest when writing and when building community with other artists. Jennifer reads widely around the greater Rochester area.