Profile of Seanan McGuire

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Bio

Seanan McGuire was born in Martinez, California, and raised in a wide variety of locations, most of which boasted some sort of dangerous native wildlife. Despite her almost magnetic attraction to anything venomous, she somehow managed to survive long enough to acquire a typewriter, a reasonable grasp of the English language, and the desire to combine the two. The fact that she wasn't killed for using her typewriter at three o'clock in the morning is probably more impressive than her lack of death by spider-bite. Her upbringing has left her with a love of rattlesnakes and a deep fear of weather, which really explains a lot.

Seanan McGuire is currently eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for best new science fiction or fantasy writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy was published in a professional publication in the previous two years. Her first novel, Rosemary and Rue, was published by DAW Books in September 2009.

Seanan also writes and publishes as Mira Grant (whose first novel, Feed, will be out May 2010).  She doesn't sleep much.

Bibliography

Seanan McGuire's Campbell-qualifying work:

Rosemary and Rue. DAW Books, 2009.
A Local Habitation. DAW Books, 2010.