Carol J. Bova adopted a new lifestyle as a writer after she relocated in 2004 to Mathews, Virginia, a small rural county on the Chesapeake Bay. After thirty-five years in business and nonprofit administration in New York and California, she discovered the complex connection of friendships and rivalries of a small town with a long history and great natural beauty. She draws on those elements in creating her fictional small town of Chestnut Springs in West Virginia. Her second Chestnut Springs novel, Breaking the Eighth, looks at the impact of embezzlement from a church, an event that occurs world-wide with losses in the billions.
Carol writes nonfiction articles for Chesapeake Style magazine and the Baconsrebellion.com blog. Her 2014 book, Drowning a County: When Urban Myths Destroy Rural Drainage, stands as a landmark reference work on the impact of failed Virginia state road drainage maintenance. Her genealogy projects include a biography in progress of a man in the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars as the Signal Corps evolved into the newly-established Weather Bureau.
She was President of the Chesapeake Bay Writers chapter of the Virginia Writers Club from 2014-2018, and 2020-2022.
Carol shares her home in Mathews with William, a Maine Coon/buff tabby.