Seanan McGuire
McGuire in 2018
Born	(1978-01-05)January 5, 1978 (age 47) Martinez, California, U.S.
Pen name	Mira Grant A. Deborah Baker
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Genre	Urban fantasy Horror Apocalyptic
Notable works	Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Spider-Gwen: Into the Unknown October Daye series InCryptid series Wayward Children series Feed series (as Mira Grant) Alien: Echo (as Mira Grant)
Notable awards	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2010) Nebula Award for Best Novella (2017) Hugo Award for Best Novella (2017) Locus Award for Best Novella (2017) Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2020)
Website
www.seananmcguire.com

Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in;^[1] born January 5, 1978) is an American author andfilker. McGuire is known for herurban fantasy novels. She uses thepseudonymMira Grant to writescience fiction/horror and the pseudonymA. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children'sportal fantasy series.

In 2010, she was awarded theJohn W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her works have garnered numerous awards, including theAlex Award,Hugo Award,Locus Award, andNebula Award.

McGuire was born on January 5, 1978, inMartinez, California.^[2] McGuire has stated that her mother, Micki McGuire,^[3] had "primary custody, two other children, no money, and an abusive husband who targeted [Seanan]".^[4] During the summer, McGuire traveled with her father,^[5] a carnival worker ofRomani origin,^[6] an experience she described as "Bradbury-esque running wild and unfettered through farmers' fields, building Ferris wheels and living on funnel cake."^[7]

At age nine, McGuire was diagnosed withobsessive–compulsive disorder.^[8]

McGuire attendedUniversity of California, Berkeley, where she studiedfolklore andherpetology.^[2]

Before becoming a full-time writer, McGuire worked at a reptile rescue organization.^[9]

McGuire has publishedfilk music, poetry, short fiction, essays, and novels. Most of her works arespeculative fiction, including fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her earliest publication was a contribution to the June 2002 poetry anthologySpeculon.^[10] She produced the musical albumPretty Little Dead Girl in 2006^[11] and published her first short story inThe Edge of Propinquity in 2008.^[10] In 2009, she published her first novel,Rosemary and Rue, which has resulted in her longest-running series, with the 19th book,Silver and Lead, published in 2025.

In 2010, she publishedFeed under the pseudonym Mira Grant. This established Seanan McGuire as an urban fantasy writer and her pseudonym Mira Grant as a horror/science fiction writer.^[12]

In 2018, McGuire began writing forMarvel Comics. She wrote twoSpider-Gwen series from 2018 to 2020 —Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider andSpider-Gwen: Into the Unknown — and has contributed to several other franchises.

She is a member of theScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA),^[13] theHorror Writers Association (HWA), and theBook View Cafe publishing cooperative.

• October Daye
• InCryptid
• Wayward Children
• Alchemical Journeys
• Indexing
• Ghost Roads
• Newsflesh (as Mira Grant)
• Parasitology (as Mira Grant)
• Up-and-Under (as A. Deborah Baker)

• "The Wine in Dreams" (novella included inStar Wars: Canto Bight anthology (as Mira Grant)
• Deadlands: Boneyard^[14]
• Overwatch: Declassified – An Official History (2023)

• Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (ongoing series, published 2018–9)
• X-Men Black:Mystique (2018)
• Age of X-Man:The Amazing Nightcrawler (tie-in, 2019)
• Ghost-Spider/Spider-Gwen: Into the Unknown (ongoing series, 2019–20)
• King in Black:Gwenom vs. Carnage (tie-in, 2021)
• Magic: Soul and Stone (July 2023)

McGuire's short fiction has been published inApex Magazine,Nightmare Magazine,Lightspeed Magazine, and others. Her works appear in anthologies edited byCharlaine Harris,Jim Butcher, andJohn Joseph Adams.

She has self-published hundreds of short stories. From 2008 to 2017, she posted installments of the Velveteen series toLiveJournal with the support of fan sponsorships.^[15] Tie-ins to herOctober Daye andInCryptid series are available for free on her website. In 2016, she launched aPatreon account to post monthly short stories for her subscribers.

McGuire holds the record for mostHugo Award nominations in a single year, with five nominations in 2013.^[16] McGuire was the first author to win theAmerican Library Association'sAlex Awards for two consecutive years.^[17] She has been nominated for theHugo Award for Best Series every year since its inception in 2017.

In 2010,Feed was recognized as #74 out of the 100 top thriller novels of all time byNPR.^[18] It was also recognized as aPublishers Weekly Best Books of 2010.^[19]

In 2012, McGuire (as Mira Grant) was inducted in to theDarrell Awards Hall of Fame for the best American Mid-South regional speculative fiction.^[20]

Pegasus Award presented by theOhio Valley Filk Festival.^[66]

McGuire was diagnosed as autistic in 2020^[67] and hasattention deficit hyperactivity disorder.^[68][69] She identifies aspansexual,^[70]bisexual,^[71] anddemisexual.^[72]

McGuire lives in Washington state.^[1]

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