She’s interested in how the human environment mingles with the natural environment and how those two worlds coalesce. Tracy earned her BA from DePaul University and her MFA from George Mason University in Virginia. Presently, she works for Girls on the Run of Central Illinois, a nonprofit prevention program for preteen girls. She also teaches writing and interdisciplinary research at University of Illinois. Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals and in the spring of 2011, she will be a resident at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the northwest coast of Oregon.