POETRY, FICTION, ESSAYS & SONG Anthology: Women Speak Volume 9
Women Speak Volume 9 —
Edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour —$18.00 + $4.00 US Shipping Per Order
Celebrating the 15th Anniversary 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 (forthcoming EastOver Press, 2024). A ninth generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, 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: KB Ballentine, Jennifer Browne, Sarah Diamond Burroway, Catherine Carter, Jessica Cory, Omope Carter Daboiku, Kathleen Driskell, Sue Weaver Dunlap, Ellis Elliott, Lynette Ford, Connie Jordan Green, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Pauletta Hansel, Melissa Helton, Sara Henning, Mikelle Hickman-Romine, Jane Hicks, Karen Paul Holmes, Keri Johnson, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Leatha Kendrick, Helga Kidder, Natalie Kimbell, Patsy Kisner, Lisa Kwong, Dawn Leas, Cathy Cultice Lentes, Meagan Lucas, Jessica Manack, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Wendy McVicker, Barbara Marie Minney, Laura Leigh Morris, V.C. Myers, Karen Whittington Nelson, Valerie Nieman, Elaine Fowler Palencia, Lisa J. Parker, Tina Parker, Linda Parsons, Rhonda Pettit, Sara Pisak, Cat Pleska, Bonnie Proudfoot, Rita Sims Quillen, Suzanne S. Rancourt, Erin Miller Reid, Barbara Sabol, Shei Sanchez, Susan Truxell Sauter, Roberta Schultz, Sharon Shadrick, Rose M. Smith, Lacy Snapp, Natalie Sypolt, Jessica Thompson, Patricia Thrushart, Rebecca Titchner, E. J. Wade, Jayne Moore Waldrop, Kristi Stephens Walker, Randi Ward, Kory Wells, Dana Wildsmith, Kristine Williams, Meredith Sue Willis, Marianne Worthington, and Karen Spears Zacharias.
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