“Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I’d gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.”

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.