Seaman is Editor, Adult Books, Booklist, member of the advisory council for the American Writers Museum, and recipient of the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. She has reviewed for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, among others. She has written for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and American Writers. Her author interviews appear in "Writers on the Air," and her book is “Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.”