POETRY, PROSE, & SONG Anthology: Women Speak Volume 10
Edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour —$18.00/$4.63 US Shipping per order
A publication of the Women of Appalachia Project
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), winner of the “2023 Book of the Year Award” for narrative poetry from the American Book Fest and finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award; 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 and Dirt Songs (EastOver Press, 2024). A ninth generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022), winner of the “2023 Poetry Anthology Best Book Award” from American Book Fest; funded through an Academy of American Poets Fellowship Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of it’s anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour holds writing workshops for incarcerated teens and adults and women in recovery. She 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. She was selected to serve as a 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival Poet and is an artist in residence for the Writing the Land Project and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Verse Daily, World Literature Today, and on Poem-a-Day. https://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com/bio
CONTRIBUTORS:
Poetry, Fiction, Essays, & Song: April J. Asbury, KB Ballentine, Jennifer Browne, Sarah Diamond Burroway, Devin Aeh Canary, Catherine Carter, Sheila Carter-Jones, Odana Chaney, Sheree Stewart Combs, Beth Copeland, Jessica Cory, Danielle Kelly Curry, Omope Carter Daboiku, Mary Lucille DeBerry, Morgan Depue, Denita Dodson, Mitzi Dorton, Kathleen Driskell, Monic Ductan, Sue Weaver Dunlap, Christian Fisanick, Lynette Ford, Dreama Wyant Frisk, Connie Jordan Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Pauletta Hansel, Melissa Helton, Sara Henning, Jane Hicks, Meredith S. Jensen, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Nicole Karch, Leatha Kendrick, Stephanie Kendrick, Patsy Kisner, Anna Johnson Kline, Megan Krupa, Lisa Kwong, Chiquita Mullins Lee, Cathy Cultice Lentes, Tess Lloyd, Marjorie Maddox, Jessica Manack, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Jonie McIntire, Wendy McVicker, Barbara Marie Minney, Susan J. Mitchell, Cathy Rigg Monetti, Laura Leigh Morris, Karen Whittington Nelson, Alexi T. Nichols, Miriam Nordine, Ali O’Rourke, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Kaja S. Parker, Lisa J. Parker, Tina Parker, Linda Parsons, Chrissie Anderson Peters, Sara Pisak, Sarah Pross, Bonnie Proudfoot, Rita Sims Quillen, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Barbara Lyghtel Rohrer, Rachel Rosolina, Leigh Claire Schmidli, Roberta Schultz, Lacy Snapp, Judith Sornberger, M. Lynne Squires, Tracy Staley, Sherry Cook Stanforth, Natalie Sypolt, Jessica D. Thompson, Jacinda Townsend, E. J. Wade, Kristi Stephens Walker, Randi Ward, Sharon Waters, Violet Rae Webster, Donna Weems, Laura Grace Weldon, Sherrell Runnion Wigal, Dana Wildsmith, Kristine Williams, Chris Wood, and Karen Spears Zacharias.
