Carla Seyler is the author of A Place Unmade, her debut novel. She hopes there will be many more books in her future, as she has wanted to be a writer since she was seven. She grew up in a large New Orleans family steeped in the rich and sometimes warring cultures of Italian American and Acadian French immigrants. Always loving, usually loud. She read constantly as a child and preferred that to almost anything.

A graduate of the University of New Orleans (UNO) and Loyola University, Seyler studied psychology and counseling. She worked in the field of vocational rehabilitation counseling for many years. Each individual, each situation was different and required a great deal of research to understand what were the challenges and how to address them.

She was driven to write A Place Unmade after reading a NYT article by Dan Barber called “Save our Food, Free the Seed.” The article pointed out the increasing lack of diversity in our food supply. Regulations and patents support large agribusinesses that are most profitable with uniform, monoculture crops. She was shocked to learn that a company can patent a seed. Or even a trait that a plant manifests. Seyler took a deep dive into the world of agriculture, seed banks, as well as grain crops and their predators to be able to tell a story that she hopes entertains and informs.

Seyler lives in New Orleans with her husband, Mark Winter. She has two independent daughters.