Carter Taylor Seaton

Carter Taylor Seaton is a freelance journalist and figurative sculptor. Born and raised in West Virginia, she graduated from Marshall University and lived in Columbus and Atlanta, Georgia from 1985-1995 before returning to her hometown of Huntington where she resides with her husband, Richard Cobb. While living in Georgia, she began running and completed several marathons after she was fifty, including the Atlanta, Marine Corps, and New York City Marathons. For fifteen years, she directed a rural Appalachian craft cooperative to benefit low-income women. Ladies Home Journal nominated her in 1975 for its "Woman of the Year" award.

Her first novel, Father's Troubles, was named as a finalist for the prestigious ForeWord Magazine 2003 Book of the Year award in the Historical Fiction category. She is a regular contributor to several regional magazines and The West Virginia Encyclopedia. In 2007, her article on the impact of the back-to-the-land movement on West Virginia was featured in Appalachian Heritage literary journal and won the Denny C. Plattner Award for its Best Work of Non-Fiction.

Seaton's second novel, amo, amas, amat...an unconventional love story, was selected as IndieReader Approved with 4.5 stars during their Discovery Awards competition.

Her third book, Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia, was released by West Virginia University Press in 2014. It is an account of the lives of forty-five artisans, musicians, and performers who came to the state during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s and it explores the reasons why. Hippie Homesteaders was named a category finalist by ForeWord Indie Reviews.

Seaton's biography of the late US Congressman - Ken Hechler, (D) West Virginia, titled The Rebel in the Red Jeep, was published by West Virginia University Press in 2017. It was chosen as a finalist for the Weatherford Award, as a category finalist in Biography by ForeWord Indie Reviews, and won the Ella Dickey Literary Award in 2018.