Kay Amert (November 11, 1947 – September 5, 2008) was an American scholar of French Renaissance printing and a typographer and letterpress printer.
She was the director of the University of Iowa Typography Library from 1972 to 2006 where she was a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Its first book was Holding Action, a compilation of poems by Sam Hamond which was published in 1969.
Seamark press published thirteen more books containing work of American poets over the next sixteen years.
[1][2] She was the director of the University of Iowa Typography Library from 1972 to 2006 where she was also a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.