Seanan McGuire

**Seanan McGuire** is the author of the InCryptid books as well as numerous other series. Her publishing career ranges among urban fantasy, horror, apocalyptic science fiction, Marvel comics, and more. She writes horror under the penname Mira Grant.

## Biography

Seanan McGuire was born in Martinez, California and raised in a wide variety of locations. She earned a dual degree in folklore and herpetology from the University of Berkeley, California, and has lived in San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest among other places.[*citation needed*]

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." She has acquired memetic internet fame for her reptile-rescue anecdotes.

She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her mother and a small herd of cats.

## Select Bibliography

**Main Article: seananmcguire.com - Bibliography**

**As Seanan McGuire:**

* October Daye series
* InCryptid series
* Ghost Roads series
* Wayward Children series
* Indexing series
* Velveteen series (out of print)
* Middlegame series
* Spider-Gwen and Ghost-Spider comics

**As Mira Grant:**

* Newsflesh series
* Parisitology series
* Drowning Deep series

**As A. Deborah Baker:**

* The Up-and-Under series

**Musical Albums:**

* Creature Feature (2015)
* Stars Fall Home (2007, reissued 2013)
* Wicked Girls (2011)
* Pretty Little Dead Girl (2006, out of print)
* Red Roses and Dead Things (out of print)

## Awards & Recognition

**Main Article: Wikipedia - Seanan McGuire - Awards and Recognition**

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 the award was presented in Australia, McGuire has blogged that this makes her "Officially the Princess of the Kingdom of Poison and Flame".

In 2010, McGuire's novel *Feed* (written under the pseudonym Mira Grant) ranked #74 in an National Public Radio listener poll of the top 100 Thriller novels of all time. *Feed* was also selected by Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 2010.

McGuire was the 2012 inductee into the 2012 Darrell Awards Hall of Fame for her contributions to Mid-south science fiction.

In 2013 she set a record for five Hugo nominations in a single year. In 2017-2018, she became the first author to win the American Library Association's Alex Award in two consecutive years.

**Won**

* John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 2010
* Hugo for Best Fancast, 2012 and 2013, for "Squeecast"
* Nebula for Best Novella, 2016, for "Every Heart a Doorway"
* Hugo for Best Novella, 2017, for "Every Heart a Doorway"

## Online Presence

**See also:** Online Resources specifically regarding the Toby series.

### Social Media

* Author Website: Official author announcements, free short stories, and other works
* Patreon: Subscriber-only short stories and blog posts
* Instagram: My Little Pony, D&D, cats, train of thought live videos
* Tumblr: Reblogs from Tobyverse and other fandoms, Word of God trivia
* Twitter: miscellaneous reblogs, train of thought updates
* Livejournal - Author updates. (Last updated April 2017)

### Interviews

* Bestselling Author Seanan McGuire Discusses Fandom and Fanfic (2020)
* Library of Congress National Book Festival (2019)
* NPR (2018)
* Penguin Random House (2018)
* Penguin Random House - Youtube Interview (2018)
* Pacific Northwest Writer's Association (2018)
* Esther Rabbit Blog (2018)
* Nightmare Magazine: (2017)
* Lightspeed Magazine (2012)
* Fantasy Faction (2012)

## References

1. ↑ http://seananmcguire.com/bio.php. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
2. ↑ John W. Campbell Award / Hugo Awards
3. ↑ http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/268884.html
4. ↑ Audience Picks: Top 100 'Killer Thrillers'
5. ↑ Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2010
6. ↑ The Darrell Awards
7. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/31/seanan-mcguire-hugo-awards-shortlist
8. ↑ https://www.tor.com/2018/02/12/seanan-mcguires-down-among-the-sticks-and-bones-martha-wells-all-systems-red-2018-alex-award-winners-ala/