Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire in 2007
Born	(1978-01-05) January 5, 1978 (age 39) Martinez, California
Pen name	Mira Grant
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genre	Urban fantasy, horror, apocalyptic
Notable works	Rosemary and Rue, Discount Armageddon, Feed (as Mira Grant)
Website
www.seananmcguire.com

Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in) (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker. In 2010, she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention, largely because of her urban fantasy / detective story Rosemary and Rue (2009), and has published a number of other novels since then also featuring October Daye.

Writing under the pseudonym Mira Grant, she published the political thriller/zombie series Newsflesh, comprising the books Feed (2010), Deadline (2011), and Blackout (2012), which received a 2013 Hugo Award nomination for Best Novel. That year, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and the other three under her own name.

(Also see the standalone novellas in the Newsflesh series.)

McGuire has published novellas directly through Orbit Books under the Mira Grant pseudonym. All have thus far centered on her previously established Newsflesh continuity.

In 2010, McGuire wrote a series of linked stories for The Edge of Propinquity, an online magazine. During this time, she was billed as a "universe author". The Sparrow Hill series focused on Rose Marshall, a hitchhiking ghost seeking revenge on the man originally responsible for her death. (Same universe as InCryptid.)

McGuire was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention. This award was announced at Aussiecon 4 on September 5, 2010. As this award is in the form of a tiara and was presented in Australia, McGuire has blogged that this makes her "Officially the Princess of the Kingdom of Poison and Flame".