Aquarium Heart includes the complete contents of Jenny Prater's now-out-of-print poetry collections Goodbye and Other Words I Should Have Said and Avalanche: A Self Portrait in Verse, as well as 66 new poems on themes of love and loss, memory and identity, and growing up and apart.

Jenny Prater lives in a cottage in Minnesota with several pets, several rosebushes, and a small vegetable garden in the backyard.