POETRY, PROSE & ART Anthology: Women Speak Volume 8

Women Speak Volume 8

Edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour —$18.00/Free US Shipping 

A publication of the Women of Appalachia Project

Shipping in December 2022

ABOUT THE EDITOR:

Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio. Her poetry collections include Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022) and A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen (Sheila Na Gig Editions, 2020), winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Verse Daily, World Literature Today, and on Poem-a-Day. A ninth generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, funded through an Academy of American Poets Fellowship Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Women of Appalachia Project’s anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University; the founder, curator, and host of “Spoken & Heard,” a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country; an artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. https://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com

​CONTRIBUTORS:

Poetry, Fiction, Essays, & Song: Neema Avashia, KB Ballentine, Tamara Baxter, Barbara Costas Biggs, Katlin Brock, Neva Bryan, Sarah Diamond Burroway, Sam Campbell, Catherine Carter, Omope Carter-Daboiku, Sheila Carter-Jones, Catherine Pritchard Childress, Jessica Cory, Cecile Dixon, Mitzi Dorton, Angie Dribben, Sue Weaver Dunlap, Ellis Elliott, CJ Farnsworth, Lynette Ford, Jane Ann Fuller, Connie Jordan Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Jennifer Hambrick, Pauletta Hansel, Jessica Held, Melissa Helton, Jane Hicks, Leatha Kendrick, Stephanie Kendrick, Patsy Kisner, Jessica Manack, Marie Manilla, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Jonie McIntire, Wendy McVicker, Barbara Marie Minney, Deni Naffziger, Karen Whittington Nelson, Valerie Nieman, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Lisa J. Parker, Tina Parker, Linda Parsons, Chrissie Anderson Peters, Rhonda Pettit, Cat Pleska, Susan Powers, Bonnie Proudfoot, Rita Quillen, Barbara Sabol, Shei Sanchez, S. Renay Sanders, Susan Truxell Sauter, Roberta Schultz, Carter Taylor Seaton, Susan Sheppard, Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Lacy Snapp, Lois Spencer, Renée Stewart, Elizabeth Tussey, E. J. Wade, Jayne Moore Waldrop, Randi Ward, Donna Weems, Kory Wells, Sherrell Wigal, Dana Wildsmith, Kristine Williams, Marianne Worthington, Karen Spears Zacharias, and

Fine Art: Michele Binegar, Alyson Annette Eshelman, Diana Ferguson, Kathy Guest, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Jessica Held, Marlene L’Abbé, Frauke Palmer, Teresa Sager, Randi Ward, Mary Beth Whitley