POETRY, PROSE, & SONG Anthology: Women Speak Volume 11
Edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour
A publication of the Women of Appalachia Project
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ABOUT THE EDITOR: Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship recipient. Her poetry collections include Dirt Songs (EastOver Press, 2024) winner of the 2025 Bronze IPPY Award for Poetry, 2025 NYC Big Book Award, 2025 Feathered Quill Award, 2025 National Federation of Press Women Award, 2024 POTY Author of the Year Award and STORYTRADE Award; Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022), winner of the 2024 Legacy Award, the 2023 Best Book Award, and finalist for the 2023 National Indie Excellence Award; 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. A ninth generation Appalachian, she is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour holds writing workshops for incarcerated adults and women in recovery, is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and the founder, curator, and host of “Spoken & Heard,” a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country. She is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, funded through the Academy of American Poets and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was selected to serve as a 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival Poet and is a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, World Literature Today, American Book Review, Poem-a-Day and Katie Curic’s Wake Up Call. https://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com/bio
CONTRIBUTORS:
Poetry, Fiction, Essays, & Song: Sharon Perkins Ackerman, Lake Angela, KB Ballentine, Jennifer Browne, Catherine Carter, Danielle Kelly Curry, Denita Dodson, Jean K. Dowdy, Hilda Downey, Monic Ductan, C.J. Farnsworth, Lynette Ford, Jo Anne Moser Gibbons, Connie Jordan Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Jennifer Hambrick, Pauletta Hansel, Sharon Hatfield, Flossie Hedges, Melissa Helton, Mikelle Hickman-Romine, Jane Hicks, TaKya Huges, Megan Hutchinson, Meredith S. Jensen, Jessica Jones, Libby Falk Jones, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Stephanie Kendrick, Patsy Kisner, Celia Lawren, Chiquita Mullins Lee, Ariadne Alexis Macquarie, Marjorie Maddox, Jessica Manack, Silvia McClamrock, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Jonie McIntire, Wendy McVicker, Mary B. Moore, Laura Leigh Morris, Erin Murphy, Karen Whittington Nelson, Valerie Nieman, Idra Novey, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Lisa J. Parker, Tina Parker, Linda Parsons, Sarah Josephine Pennington, Cat Pleska, Sherry Poff, Susan E. Powers, Bonnie Proudfoot, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Rachel Rosolina, Leigh Claire Schmidli, Roberta Schultz, M. Lynne Squires, Sherry Cook Stanforth, Angie Terry, Allison Thorpe, Patricia Thrushart, E. J. Wade, Elinor Ann Walker, Kristi Stephens Walker, Randi Ward, Dana Wildsmith, Kristine Williams, Meredith Sue Willis, and Andrena Zawinski.
