Through the grainy lens of a computer camera, rows of books sit still in bookcases along the back wall of her small, but carefully curated, living room. It’s quiet inside, not because of the headphones she wears to talk, but because the room is like Sandra Seaton – thoughtful, structured, but curiously, carefree.
“When my kids were little, I was a studio art major for a while at MSU, and I was going to do architecture by conduct,” she said. “I put them (her children) on the floor, and they would have their crayons and paper, and then I would work while they were doing stuff. If I’m working on a play or something, I can be doing that and doing the dishes.”
There isn’t an order. There isn’t chaos. There is, however, mindfulness that exudes in her work, which has been honored in the form of the Mark Twain Award from The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature in 2012 and the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting…