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Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in; born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker. McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children's portal fantasy series.In 2010, she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the World Science Fiction Convention. Her 2016 novella Every Heart a Doorway received a Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and Alex Award.In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and three under her own name. Biography McGuire was born in California, to parents who were separated for most of her childhood. She traveled with her father, a carnival worker of Romani origin, during the summer, an experience that she described as "Bradbury-esque running wild and unfettered through farmers' fields, building Ferris wheels and living on funnel cake." This experience had a strong influence on her later work, particularly InCryptid: several of the stories in the series (particularly Magic for Nothing, Married in Green and The Flower of Arizona) are set in or feature carnivals, and the companion Ghost Roads series tells the story of a highway ghost. She has at least two brothers on her father's side of the family. Her mother, Micki McGuire, had "primary custody, two other children, no money, and an abusive husband who targeted [her]", and her early childhood was difficult. McGuire, who attended University of California, Berkeley, currently lives in Washington State.She has described her interests as including "swamps, long walks, long walks in swamps, things that live in swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality TV, comic books, finding pennies on the street, and venomous reptiles."McGuire frequently posts online about roleplaying games, My Little Pony, and caring for her menagerie of cats. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked at a reptile rescue organization.She identifies as pansexual, bisexual and demisexual, and writes numerous queer characters into her work. She has autism, which she was diagnosed with in 2020, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder, diagnosed when she was nine. Professional career McGuire has published filk music, poetry, short fiction, essays, and novels. Most follow speculative fiction themes of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her earliest publication was a contribution to the June 2002 poetry anthology Speculon. She produced the musical album Pretty Little Dead Girl in 2006 and published her first short story in The Edge of Propinquity in 2008.Rosemary and Rue was her first published novel, released in 2009. She published Feed under the pseudonym Mira Grant in 2010, thus establishing herself as an urban fantasy writer and her Grant persona as a horror/science fiction writer. Her longest-running series is the October Daye books, which began in 2009 with Rosemary and Rue. Sixteen books are currently available and the next installment is planned for September 2023.In 2018, McGuire began writing for Marvel Comics. She is the author of the Spider-Gwen series and has contributed to several other franchises. Notable works Series October Daye InCryptid Wayward Children Alchemical Journeys Ghost Roads Newsflesh (as Mira Grant) Parasitology (as Mira Grant) Up-and-Under (as A. Deborah Baker)Tie-ins "The Wine in Dreams" (novella included in Star Wars: Canto Bight anthology (as Mira Grant) Deadlands: Boneyard Overwatch: Declassified - An Official History (2023)Comics Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (series, published 2018-9) Magic:Soul and Stone (July 2023)Short fiction McGuire's short fiction has been published in Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and others. Her works appear in anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, and John Joseph Adams. She has self-published hundreds of short stories. From 2008 to 2017, she posted installments of the Velveteen series to LiveJournal with the support of fan sponsorships. Tie-ins to her October Daye and InCryptid series are available for free on her website. In 2016, she launched a Patreon account to post monthly short stories for her subscribers. Awards and nominations Literary awards McGuire holds the record for most Hugo Award nominations in a single year, with five nominations in 2013. McGuire was the first author to win the American Library Association's Alex Awards for two consecutive years. She has been nominated for the Hugo 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 by NPR. It was also recognized as a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2010.In 2012, McGuire (as Mira Grant) was inducted in to the Darrell Awards Hall of Fame for the best American Mid-South regional speculative fiction. Filk awards Pegasus Award presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Festival. References External links SeananMcGuire.com Seanan McGuire at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Seanan McGuire at Library of Congress, with 9 library catalog records Mira Grant at LC Authorities, with 4 records. Discover the Mira Grant popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mira Grant books.

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  • Mislaid in Parts Half-Known synopsis, comments

    Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

    Seanan McGuire

    Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula AwardWinning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Antsy is the latest student to pas...

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    Nights of the Living Dead

    Jonathan Maberry & George A. Romero

    In 1968, the world experienced a brandnew kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not...

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    Under the Smokestrewn Sky

    A. Deborah Baker

    Under the Smokestrewn Sky is the series finale of the 4book UpandUnder series, written by bestselling author Seanan McGuire under the open pseudonym A. Deborah Baker.Since stumblin...

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    Urban Enemies

    Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, Kelley Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, Jeff Somers & Joseph Nassise

    Villains have all the funeveryone knows thatand this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from seventeen urban fantasy series get their own st...

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    Tidal Creatures

    Seanan McGuire

    Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City…New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the awardwinning Alchemical Journeys series in...

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    Lilith - Hollywood Monsters

    Dana Fredsti

    "We've got intrigue, murder, and ghosts. Egos, images, revenge. It's Hollywood... in brilliant Dana Fredsti's hands" Josh Mallerman.Working in Hollywood is a living Hell. Quirky, f...

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    Symbiont

    Mira Grant

    From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The SymboGendesigned tapeworms were created to relieve humanity ...