Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in;[1] born January 5, 1978) is an American author and filker.

[4] During the summer, McGuire traveled with her father,[5] a carnival worker of Romani origin,[6] an experience she described as "Bradbury-esque running wild and unfettered through farmers' fields, building Ferris wheels and living on funnel cake.

[8] McGuire attended University of California, Berkeley, where she studied folklore and herpetology.

[9] McGuire has published filk music, poetry, short fiction, essays, and novels.

[10] She produced the musical album Pretty Little Dead Girl in 2006[11] and published her first short story in The Edge of Propinquity in 2008.

Her works appear in anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, and John Joseph Adams.

[16] McGuire was the first author to win the American Library Association's Alex Awards for two consecutive years.

[19] In 2012, McGuire (as Mira Grant) was inducted in to the Darrell Awards Hall of Fame for the best American Mid-South regional speculative fiction.