POETRY, PROSE, & SONG Anthology: Women Speak Volume 12
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 All That Teethes Within (UP of Kentucky, 2026), 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: Ashley Anderson, Colleen Anderson, Lake Angela, Chris Arvidson, April J. Asbury, KB Ballentine, Suzette Clark Bradshaw, Jennifer Browne, Colleen Burke, Tina Foster Caldwell, Catherine Carter, Jessica Cory, Jessica Covil-Manset, Narya Rose Deckard, Morgan DePue, Danita Dodson, Christiana Doucette, Hilda Downer, Monic Ductan, Eir-Anne Edgar, Pella Felton, Lynette Ford, Jane Ann Fuller, Connie Jordan Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Pauletta Hansel, A.M. Hayden, Flossie Hedges, Melissa Jørgenrud Helton, Sara Henning, Mikelle Hickman-Romine, Jane Hicks, Sarah Insalaco, Judy Jenks, Meredith S. Jensen, LuLu Johnson, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Natalie Kimbell, Patsy Kisner, Carol Parris Krauss, Paula Lepp, Christina Linsin, Tess Lockhart, Heather Loudermilk, Carol J. Luther, Marjorie Maddox, Jessica Manack, Claire Massey, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Wendy McVicker, Patti Miller, Barbara Marie Minney, Mary B. Moore, Deni Naffziger, Karen Whittington Nelson, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Tina Parker, Chrissie Anderson Peters, Susan E. Powers, Bonnie Proudfoot, Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Suzanne S. Rancourt, McKenna Revel, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Leigh Claire Schmidli, Roberta Schultz, Lacie Semenovich, L. Shrewsberry, Jennifer Susan Smith, Judith Sornberger, Tracy Staley, Katerina Stoykova, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Beverly Voight, E. J. Wade, Sharon Waters, Donna Weems, Laura Grace Weldon, Dana Wildsmith, Kristine Williams, Saelyr Wilson, Marianne Worthington, and Cindy Yeager
