“I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it's enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.”

American author and filker

Seanan McGuire is an American author and filker known for urban fantasy and comics. She writes under her own name and under the pseudonyms Mira Grant and A. Deborah Baker. Her work includes urban fantasy novels and Spider-Gwen comic books. As Mira Grant, she has written science fiction and horror, including Aliens: Echo. As A. Deborah Baker, she writes the children's portal fantasy series Up-and-Under.