Hi, I'm Carter Seaton, an award-winning author, an award-winning figurative sculptor and a certified scuba diver. When I lived in Georgia I began running and completed several marathon after I was fifty, including the New York City Marathon.
Twenty years and four children after beginning my college career, I received my degree from Marshall University in my hometown of Huntington, West Virginia. For fifteen years I directed a rural Appalachian craft cooperative to benefit low-income women. Ladies Home Journal nominated me in 1975 for its "Women of the Year" award.
In 1985 when I moved to Georgia it was to become a marketing consultant in the travel, special events and hospitality industry. At one time I served as Travel Marketing Director for Underground Atlanta before I returned to West Virginia in 1995.
My first novel, Father's Troubles, was published in October 2003 and named as a finalist in the Historical Fiction category in ForeWord Magazine's 2003 Book-of-the-Year awards.
I am also a free lance writer with credits in the the WV Encyclopedia, Huntington Quarterly , Marshall Magazine, St. Mary's Today, Metro Valley Review and Appalachian Heritage magazines. Some of my essays have appeared in several anthologies. My article, "Those Who Came" published in the Spring 2007 issue of the Appalachian Heritage literary journal received the 2007 Denny C. Plattner Award for the Best Non-Fiction work in the magazine.
Currently, I'm completing a non-fiction book about the impact of the 1960s and 1970s back-to-the-land movement on the cultural climate of West Virginia.