Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in)[1] (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. Her novella "Every Heart a Doorway" received the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella,[2] the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella,[3] and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Novella.[4]

Seanan McGuire
McGuire in 2018
Born (1978-01-05) January 5, 1978
Martinez, California, U.S.
Pen name
  • Mira Grant
  • A. Deborah Baker
OccupationWriter
GenreUrban fantasy, horror, apocalyptic
Notable worksRosemary and Rue, Discount Armageddon, Feed (as Mira Grant), the "Wayward Children" series
Website
www.seananmcguire.com

McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She adopted the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror.[5] As Grant, she published the political thriller/zombie series Newsflesh, comprising the books Feed (2010), Deadline (2011), Blackout (2012), and Feedback (2016). Blackout was nominated for a 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Additionally, in 2017, The Wine in Dreams was published as part of the novella collection, Star Wars: Canto Bight, a tie-in to the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and the other three under her own name.[6]

Biography

McGuire was born in California. 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."[7] She identifies as pansexual,[8] or bisexual,[9] and demisexual.[10]

Novels

October Daye
  1. Rosemary and Rue (September 1, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7564-0571-7)
  2. A Local Habitation (March 2, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7564-0596-0)
  3. An Artificial Night (September 7, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7564-0626-4)
  4. Late Eclipses (March 1, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7564-0666-0)
  5. One Salt Sea (September 6, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7564-0683-7)
  6. Ashes of Honor (September 4, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7564-0749-0)
  7. Chimes at Midnight (September 3, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7564-0814-5)
  8. The Winter Long (September 2, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7564-0808-4)
  9. A Red Rose Chain (September 1, 2015, ISBN 978-0756408091)[11]
  10. Once Broken Faith (September 6, 2016, ISBN 978-1472151056)
  11. The Brightest Fell (September 5, 2017, ISBN 978-0756413316)[11]
  12. Night and Silence (September 4, 2018, ISBN 9780756414764)[11]
  13. The Unkindest Tide (September 3, 2019, DAW ISBN 9780756415075)<[12]>
  14. A Killing Frost (September 1, 2020, DAW ISBN 9780756415082)<[12]>
  15. When Sorrow Comes (September 2021, DAW)
  16. Sleep No More (September 2022, DAW)
  17. These Violent Delights (September 2023, DAW)

InCryptid
  1. Discount Armageddon (March 6, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7564-0713-1)
  2. Midnight Blue-Light Special (March 5, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7564-0792-6)
  3. Half-Off Ragnarok (March 4, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7564-0811-4)
  4. Pocket Apocalypse (March 3, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7564-0812-1)
  5. Chaos Choreography (March 1, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7564-0813-8)
  6. Magic for Nothing (March 7, 2017, ISBN 978-0-7564-1039-1)
  7. Tricks for Free (March 6, 2018, ISBN 978-0-7564-1040-7)[13]
  8. That Ain't Witchcraft (March 5, 2019, ISBN 978-0756411794)
  9. Imaginary Numbers (February 25, 2020, DAW ISBN 9780756413781)[14]
  10. Calculated Risks (February 23, 2021, DAW)[15]

Newsflesh (as Mira Grant)
  • Newsflesh 1.0: Feed. Orbit. April 27, 2010. ISBN 978-0-316-08105-4. (Novel)
    • Newsflesh 1.5: Fed. Orbit. May 16, 2012. (A free digital novella presenting an alternate ending to Feed)
  • Newsflesh 2.0: Deadline. Orbit. May 31, 2011. ISBN 978-0-316-08106-1.
  • Newsflesh 3.0: Blackout. Orbit. June 1, 2012. ISBN 978-0-316-08107-8.
  • Newsflesh 4.0: Feedback. Orbit. October 4, 2016. ISBN 978-0-316-37934-2. (Novel presenting the events of Feed from an alternative point of view)
  • Rise: A Newsflesh Collection. Orbit. June 21, 2016. ISBN 978-0-316-30958-5. (Collection containing 8 novellas set in the Newsflesh World)
    • "Countdown" – The origins of the Rising
    • "Everglades" – A story set in a California College during the Rising
    • "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats" – A story of San Diego Comic Con during the Rising
    • "How Green This Land, How Blue this Sea" – A story set after Blackout
    • "The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell" – A story set in the time shortly after the Rising, but before Feed
    • "Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus" – A story set after Blackout
    • "All the Pretty Little Horses" – Stacy and Michael Mason's side of the story after the Rising
    • "Coming to You Live" – A story involving Shaun and Georgia after Blackout

Parasitology (as Mira Grant)
  1. Parasite (October 29, 2013, ISBN 978-0-356-50192-5)[16]
  2. Symbiont (November 25, 2014, ISBN 978-0-316-21899-3)
  3. Chimera (November 24, 2015, ISBN 978-0-316-38103-1) [17]

Velveteen
  1. Velveteen vs. the Junior Super Patriots (November 9, 2012, ISBN 978-0-98579-891-8, ISFiC Press)
  2. Velveteen vs. the Multiverse (August 23, 2013, ISBN 978-0-98579-896-3, ISFiC Press)
  3. Velveteen vs. the Seasons (May 6, 2016, ISBN 978-0-99100-267-2, ISFiC Press)

Indexing
  1. Indexing (January 24, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4778-0960-0)
  2. Indexing: Reflections (2015, ISBN 978-1-5039-4774-0)[18]

Wayward Children
  1. Every Heart a Doorway (April 5, 2016, ISBN 978-0-76538-5-505)
  2. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (June 13, 2017, ISBN 978-0-76539-2-039)
  3. Beneath the Sugar Sky (January 9, 2018, ISBN 978-0-765393-586)
  4. In an Absent Dream (January 8, 2019, ISBN 978-0-765399-298)
  5. Come Tumbling Down (January 7, 2020, ISBN 9780765399311)
  6. Across the Green Grass Fields (January 12, 2021)

Ghost Stories
  1. Sparrow Hill Road (May 6, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7564-0961-6)
  2. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown (July 17, 2018, ISBN 978-0-7564-1380-4)
  3. Angel of the Overpass (May 11, 2021, DAW)

Drowning Deep (as Mira Grant)
  1. Rolling in the Deep. Subterranean Press. April 6, 2015.
  2. Into the Drowning Deep. Orbit. November 14, 2017.

Alien (as Mira Grant)
  • Alien: Echo. Imprint. (April 9, 2019, ISBN 9781250306296.)

Middlegame
  1. Middlegame (May 7, 2019, ISBN 9781250195524)

The Up-and-Under (as A. Deborah Baker)
  1. ‘’Over the Woodward Wall’’ (October 6, 2020 ISBN 9780765399267)

Comics

McGuire has written for Marvel Comics, mainly writing Spider Gwen/Ghost Spider and within the X-Men range.

Collected Editions:

  • Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Vol. 1: Spider-Geddon ISBN 978-1302914769
  • Ghost-Spider Vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over ISBN 978-1302920128
  • Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Vol. 2: Impossible Year ISBN 978-1302914776
  • Age Of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler ISBN 978-1302915773

She contributed to the anthologies

  • X-Men Black ISBN 978-1302915537
  • Fearless ISBN 978-1302919467
  • Marvel Universe: Time And Again ISBN 978-1302915971

Non-fiction
  • "Mathematical Excellence" in Chicks Dig Time Lords (March 2010)
  • "Introduction" in In A Gilded Light (Jennifer Brozek, September 2010)
  • "The Girls Next Door: Learning to Live With the Living Dead and Never Even Break a Nail" in Whedonistas (March 2011)
  • "Summers and Winters, Frost and Flame" in Chicks Dig Comics (April 2012)
  • Letters to the Pumpkin King (February 2014, ISBN 978-1-61037-304-3)

Albums
  • Pretty Little Dead Girl: Seanan McGuire and Friends Live at OVFF 2005 (2006)
  • Stars Fall Home (2007)
  • Red Roses and Dead Things (2009)
  • Wicked Girls (2011)[19]

Awards and nominations

McGuire was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention.[20]

In 2010, McGuire's novel Feed (written under the pseudonym Mira Grant) ranked #74 in a National Public Radio listener poll of the top 100 thriller novels of all time.[21] Feed was also selected by Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 2010.[22] It was nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award, as well as the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel.[23] Its sequel, Deadline, was also nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The stand-alone Newsflesh story Countdown was nominated for the 2012 Best Novella Hugo. Her filk album Wicked Girls was nominated for the 2012 Best Related Work Hugo. The SF Squeecast, a podcast to which she contributes, won the 2012 Hugo Award for best fancast.[24]

McGuire was the inductee into the 2012 Darrell Awards Hall of Fame for her contributions to mid-south science fiction.[25]

SF Squeecast won its second Hugo in 2013. Blackout received a 2013 Hugo nomination for Best Novel. In addition, McGuire received three other nominations (a record five nominations in a single year): best novella (as Grant) and twice for best novelette (both as McGuire).[6]

McGuire won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella for Every Heart a Doorway.[2] McGuire has won six Pegasus Awards:[26]

Every Heart a Doorway was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2017. Beneath the Sugar Sky was nominated for the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.[27]

McGuire has won the American Library Association's Alex Award twice: in 2017 for Every Heart a Doorway [28] and in 2018 for Down Among the Sticks and Bones.[29] This makes her the first author to win the award in two consecutive years.[30]

McGuire has received four nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Series. The October Daye series was nominated in 2017 and 2019, and the InCryptid series was nominated in 2018 and 2020.

Year Organization Award Category Work Result Source
2020 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novel Middlegame Nominated [31]
2020 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novella In an Absent Dream Nominated [31]
2020 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Series InCryptid Nominated [31]
2019 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Series October Daye Nominated
2019 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novella Beneath the Sugar Sky Nominated
2018 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novella Down Among the Sticks and Bones Nominated
2018 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Series InCryptid Nominated
2017 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novella Every Heart a Doorway Won
2017 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Series October Daye Nominated
2016 Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Best Novella Every Heart a Doorway Won [32]
2013 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novel Blackout (as Mira Grant) Nominated [33]
2013 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novelette In Sea-Salt Tears Nominated [33]
2013 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novelette Rat-Catcher Nominated [33]
2013 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Fancast SF Squeecast Won [33]
2012 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novel Deadline (as Mira Grant) Nominated [34]
2012 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Novella Countdown (as Mira Grant) Nominated [34]
2012 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Related Work Wicked Girls Nominated [34]
2012 World Science Fiction Convention Hugo Best Fancast SF Squeecast Won
2010 World Science Fiction Society Campbell Best New Writer N/A Won [35]

References
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  2. "Nebula Award Recipients Announced". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  3. "2017 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  4. "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  5. Mayer, Petra (July 22, 2018). "Readers See Themselves In The Many Worlds Of Seanan McGuire". NPR. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  6. Flood, Alison (31 March 2013). "Seanan McGuire gets record five nominations for Hugo awards". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  7. "Seanan McGuire: Biography". seananmcguire.com. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  8. "Women in Queer SFF: Interview with Seanan McGuire". Sep 7, 2017. Retrieved Sep 26, 2019.
  9. McGuire, Seanan (Apr 22, 2015). "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". Retrieved Sep 26, 2019.
  10. McGuire, Seanan (Feb 13, 2017). "My name is pronounced SHAWN-in, and while there are many aspects to the book that are not mine, I identify as demisexual". Retrieved Nov 24, 2019.
  11. McGuire, Seanan. "The October Daye Books". www.seananmcguire.com. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  12. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BK8/october-daye
  13. McGuire, Seanan. "Guess Who's Coming to the Family Reunion?". Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  14. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BBS/incryptid/
  15. McGuire, Seanan (February 25, 2020). Imaginary Numbers. DAW. p. 435. ISBN 9780756413781.
  16. "Mira Grant – Parasite announced! Release date and synopsis inside". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.; Will Hinton (2013-10-29). "An apple a day won't keep PARASITE away!". Orbit Books. Retrieved Nov 3, 2013.
  17. Grant, Mira (2015-11-24). Chimera (Parasitology): Mira Grant: 9780316381031: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-0316381031.
  18. McGuire, Seanan. "Everyone knew how the story would go: crows on the battlements, blood on the snow". Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  19. "Music and Filk FAQ". Seanan McGuire. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  20. "John W. Campbell Award History". www.thehugoawards.org.
  21. "Audience Picks: Top 100 'Killer Thrillers'". NPR. 2010.
  22. "Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2010". Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  23. "Account Suspended". www.renovationsf.org. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved Sep 26, 2019.
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  25. "The Darrell Awards". Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  26. "Pegasus Awards – Seanan McGuire". www.ovff.org. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  27. "World Fantasy Awards℠ 2019 | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  28. "Alex Awards 2017". www.ala.org. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  29. "Alex Awards 2018". www.ala.org. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  30. "Alex Awards Tor Press Release". www.tor.com. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
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  33. "2013 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2012-12-22. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  34. "2012 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  35. "Campbell Award". The Hugo Awards. 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2019-04-03.


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