Kari Gunter-Seymour is the poet laureate of Ohio, an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship recipient, and a retired instructor in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.A ninth-generation Appalachian, she is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of its anthology series, Women Speak. Her highly acclaimed poetry collections include Dirt Songs, Alone in the House of My Heart, and A Place SoDeep Inside America It Can't Be Seen. Gunter-Seymour holds writing workshops for incarcerated adults and women in recovery and is the founder, curator, and host of Spoken & Heard. Her work has been featured in outlets such as Poem-a-Day, World Literature Today, and The New York Times.