Seanan McGuire


Seanan McGuire 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, the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the 2017 Locus Award for Best Novella.
McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She adopted the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror. As Grant, she published the political thriller/zombie series Newsflesh, comprising the books Feed, Deadline, Blackout, and Feedback. 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, ', a tie-in to the 2017 film '.
In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and the other three under her own name.

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." She identifies as pansexual, or bisexual, and demisexual.

Novels

October Daye

  1. Rosemary and Rue
  2. A Local Habitation
  3. An Artificial Night
  4. Late Eclipses
  5. One Salt Sea
  6. Ashes of Honor
  7. Chimes at Midnight
  8. The Winter Long
  9. A Red Rose Chain
  10. Once Broken Faith
  11. The Brightest Fell
  12. Night and Silence
  13. The Unkindest Tide <>
  14. A Killing Frost <>

    InCryptid

  15. Discount Armageddon
  16. Midnight Blue-Light Special
  17. Half-Off Ragnarok
  18. Pocket Apocalypse
  19. Chaos Choreography
  20. Magic for Nothing
  21. Tricks for Free
  22. That Ain't Witchcraft
  23. Imaginary Numbers
  24. Calculated Risks

    Newsflesh (as Mira Grant)

  1. Parasite
  2. Symbiont
  3. Chimera

    Velveteen

  4. Velveteen vs. the Junior Super Patriots
  5. Velveteen vs. the Multiverse
  6. Velveteen vs. the Seasons

    Indexing

  7. Indexing
  8. Indexing: Reflections

    Wayward Children

  9. Every Heart a Doorway
  10. Down Among the Sticks and Bones
  11. Beneath the Sugar Sky
  12. In an Absent Dream
  13. Come Tumbling Down

    Ghost Stories

  14. Sparrow Hill Road
  15. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

    Drowning Deep (as Mira Grant)

  17. Into the Drowning Deep. Orbit. November 14, 2017.

    Alien (as Mira Grant)

  1. Middlegame

    Comics

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  2. Non-fiction

McGuire was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention.
In 2010, McGuire's novel Feed ranked #74 in a 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. It was nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award, as well as the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel. 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.
McGuire was the inductee into the 2012 Darrell Awards Hall of Fame for her contributions to mid-south science fiction.
SF Squeecast won its second Hugo in 2013. Blackout received a 2013 Hugo nomination for Best Novel. In addition, McGuire received three other nominations : best novella and twice for best novelette.
McGuire won the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella for Every Heart a Doorway. McGuire has won six Pegasus Awards:
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.
McGuire has won the American Library Association's Alex Award twice: in 2017 for Every Heart a Doorway and in 2018 for Down Among the Sticks and Bones. This makes her the first author to win the award in two consecutive years.
McGuire has received three 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.
YearOrganizationAwardCategoryWorkResultSource
2019World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest SeriesOctober Daye
2019World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NovellaBeneath the Sugar Sky
2018World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NovellaDown Among the Sticks and Bones
2018World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest SeriesInCryptid
2017World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NovellaEvery Heart a Doorway
2017World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest SeriesOctober Daye
2016Science Fiction Writers of AmericaNebulaBest NovellaEvery Heart a Doorway
2013World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NovelBlackout
2013World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NoveletteIn Sea-Salt Tears
2013World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NoveletteRat-Catcher
2013World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest FancastSF Squeecast
2012World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NovelDeadline
2012World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest NovellaCountdown
2012World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest Related WorkWicked Girls
2012World Science Fiction ConventionHugoBest FancastSF Squeecast
2010World Science Fiction SocietyCampbellBest New WriterN/A