American author and filker (born 1978)
Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in;[ 1] born January 5, 1978) 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.
She writes numerous queer characters into her work.
Early life and education [ edit ]
McGuire was born on January 5, 1978, in Martinez, 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 of Romani 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 with obsessive–compulsive disorder .[ 8]
McGuire attended University of California, Berkeley , where she studied folklore and herpetology .[ 2]
Before becoming a full-time writer, McGuire worked at a reptile rescue organization.[ 9]
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. [ 10] She produced the musical album Pretty Little Dead Girl in 2006[ 11] and published her first short story in The 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 18th book, The Innocent Sleep , published in 2023.
In 2010, she published Feed 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 for Marvel Comics . She wrote two Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider series from 2018-2020 and has contributed to several other franchises.
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 (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 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.[ 14] 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 [ edit ]
McGuire holds the record for most Hugo Award nominations in a single year, with five nominations in 2013.[ 15] McGuire was the first author to win the American Library Association 's Alex Awards for two consecutive years.[ 16] 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 .[ 17] It was also recognized as a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2010.[ 18]
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.[ 19]
Locus has regularly included the Wayward Children books in their year-end list of the best novellas of the year, including Every Heart a Doorway (2016),[ 20] Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017),[ 21] Come Tumbling Down (2020),[ 22] and Lost in the Moment and Found (2023).[ 23]
Pegasus Award presented by the Ohio Valley Filk Festival .[ 88]
Year
Award
Work
Result
2005
Best Writer/ Composer
N/A
Nominated
2006
Best Writer/ Composer
N/A
Nominated
2006
Best Torch Song
"Maybe It's Crazy"
Nominated
2007
Best Performer
N/A
Won
2008
Best Writer/ Composer
N/A
Won
2008
Best Tragedy Song
"The Black Death"
Nominated
2010
Best Mad Science Song
"What a Woman's For"
Won
2011
Best Filk Song
"Wicked Girls"
Won
2011
Most Badass Song
"Evil Laugh"
Won
2012
Best Filk Song
"My Story Is Not Done"
Nominated
2015
Best Filk Song
"My Story Is Not Done"
Won
2018
Best Horror Song
"Dear Gina"
Won
2021
Best Mad Science Song
"Maybe it's Crazy"
Nominated
2021
Best Cheery-Ose Song
"Dear Seanan" (with Erin Bellavia and Merav Hoffman)
Nominated
McGuire was diagnosed as autistic in 2020[ 89] and has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder .[ 90] [ 91] She identifies as pansexual ,[ 92] bisexual ,[ 93] and demisexual .[ 94]
McGuire lives in Washington state.[ 1]
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^ a b "Seanan McGuire: Out of Sync" . Locus Online . 2017-12-11. Archived from the original on 2023-12-26. Retrieved 2024-04-11 .
^ McGuire, Seanan (March 6, 2018). Tricks for Free . Astra Publishing House. ISBN 978-0-698-18358-2 – via Google Books.
^ McGuire, Seanan [@seananmcguire] (2023-06-13). "Because there are often diametric conflicts in the way I describe my childhood: I have two parents. Most people do. They were not married. My mother had primary custody, two other children, no money, and an abusive husband who targeted me" (Tweet ) – via Twitter .
^ McGuire, Seanan [@seananmcguire] (2023-06-13). "My father had the carnival, where I had my own wagon, and was allowed a certain amount of feral, emotionally-damaged autonomy. He only got me during the summers" (Tweet ) – via Twitter .
^ @seananmcguire (August 10, 2019). "Yes, I am ethnically Irish (and Romany, on my father's side). I have a very Irish name. This doesn't make me culturally Irish. I am privileged to be a guest in the land of my ancestors" (Tweet ) – via Twitter .
^ McGuire, Seanan [@seananmcguire] (2023-06-13). "So yes, my childhood was simultaneously unspeakable horrors in an apartment with cockroaches and no heat, and Bradbury-esque running wild and unfettered through farmers' fields, building Ferris wheels and living on funnel cake. Real life gets to contradict" (Tweet ) – via Twitter .
^ McGuire, Seanan [@seananmcguire] (Jan 30, 2020). "And the answer is that people with OCD exist. I have OCD, and I exist. I'm not looking for a cure; I have the childhood onset form of the condition, meaning I was diagnosed at the age of nine" (Tweet ). Retrieved May 6, 2023 – via Twitter .
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^ McGuire, Seanan [@seananmcguire] (2015-04-22). "I am not a lesbian when I am with a woman. I am not straight when I am with a man. I am not asexual when I am with neither. I'm bi" (Tweet ) – via Twitter .
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October Daye
Rosemary and Rue (2009)
A Local Habitation (2010)
An Artificial Night (2010)
Late Eclipses (2011)
One Salt Sea (2011)
Ashes of Honor (2012)
Chimes at Midnight (2013)
The Winter Long (2014)
A Red-Rose Chain (2015)
Once Broken Faith (2016)
The Brightest Fell (2017)
Night and Silence (2018)
The Unkindest Tide (2019)
A Killing Frost (2020)
When Sorrows Come (2021)
Be the Serpent (2022)
Sleep No More (2023)
The Innocent Sleep (2023)
InCryptid
Discount Armageddon (2012)
Midnight Blue-Light Special (2013)
Half-Off Ragnarok (2014)
Pocket Apocalypse (2015)
Chaos Choreography (2016)
Magic for Nothing (2017)
Tricks for Free (2018)
That Ain't Witchcraft (2019)
Imaginary Numbers (2020)
Calculated Risks (2021)
Spelunking Through Hell (2022)
Backpacking Through Bedlam (2023)
Aftermarket Afterlife (2024)
Velveteen
Velveteen vs. the Junior Super Patriots (2012)
Velveteen vs. the Multiverse (2013)
Velveteen vs. the Season (2016)
Indexing
Indexing (2014)
Indexing: Reflections (2015)
Ghost Roads
Sparrow Hill Road (2014)
The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (2018)
Angel of the Overpass (2021)
Wayward Children Alchemical Journeys
Middlegame (2019)
Over the Woodward Wall (2020)
Seasonal Fears (2022)
Collections
Letters to the Pumpkin King (2014)
Laughter at the Academy (2019)
Dying With Her Cheer Pants On (2020)
as Mira Grant
Newsflesh Parasitology
Parasite (2013)
Symbiont (2014)
Chimera (2015)
Rolling in the Deep
as A. Deborah Baker
Up and Under
Over the Woodward Wall (2020)
Along the Saltwise Sea (2021)
Into the Windwracked Wilds (2022)
Under the Smokestrewn Sky (2023)
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