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Mira Grant


USA flag (b.1978)

A pseudonym used by Seanan McGuire

Mira Grant was born and raised in Northern California, where she has made a lifelong study of horror movies, horrible viruses, and the inevitable threat of the living dead. In college, she was voted Most Likely to Summon Something Horrible in the Cornfield, and was a founding member of the Horror Movie Sleep-Away Survival Camp, where her record for time survived in the "Swamp Cannibals" scenario remains unchallenged.

Currently, Mira lives in a crumbling farmhouse with an assortment of cats, horror movies, comics, and books about horrible diseases. When not writing, she splits her time between travel, auditing college virology courses, and watching more horror movies than is strictly good for you. Favorite vacation spots include Seattle, London, and a large haunted corn maze just outside of Huntsville, Alabama.
 


Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
May 2025

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Overgrowth
 
Series
Newsflesh
   0.5. Countdown (2011)
   1. Feed (2010)
   2. Deadline (2011)
   3. Blackout (2012)
   3.1. San Diego 2014 (2012)
   3.5. How Green This Land, How Blue this Sea (2013)
   3.6. The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (2014)
   3.7. Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus (2015)
   4. Feedback (2015)
   Rise (2016)
   All the Pretty Little Horses (2017)
   Coming to You Live (2018)
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Parasitology
   1. Parasite (2013)
   2. Symbiont (2014)
   3. Chimera (2014)
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Novels
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Collections
   When Will You Rise (2012)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box (2011)
   Final Girls (2017)
   Kingdom of Needle and Bone (2018)
   Square3 (2021)
   Unbreakable (2023)
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Series contributed to
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Alien
   Alien: Echo (2019)
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Books containing stories by Mira Grant
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Ultimate Prey (2022)
(AVP: Aliens vs. Predators)
edited by
Jonathan Maberry and Brian Thomas Schmidt
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The Best of the Best Horror of the Year (2018)
(Best Horror of the Year)
edited by
Ellen Datlow
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10 (2018)
(Best Horror of the Year, book 10)
edited by
Ellen Datlow

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Award nominations
2014 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Parasite
2013 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Blackout
2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Countdown
2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Deadline
2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Feed
2011 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Deadline
2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Feed


Mira Grant recommends
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Vicious / Vengeful / Warm Up (2023)
(Villains)
V E Schwab
"Fresh, merciless, and, yes, vicious, WOW."
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The Hollow Places (2020)
T Kingfisher
"Innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling, T. Kingfisher isn't just breaking into the horror scene, she's breaking it down. With a hammer."
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Semiosis (2018)
(Semiosis Duology, book 1)
Sue Burke
"Original, gripping, and gloriously unpredictable."

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