Mira Grant

Mira Grant is the pseudonym used by the famous American author Seanan McGuire, who likes to write her novels based on the horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy genres. She was born on January 5, 1978 in Martinez, California. For her prosperous writing career Grant was awarded with the John W Campbell Award in the year 2010 for being the Best New Writer. Since her debut in the year 2009, she has gone on to write and publish a number of detective and urban fantasy novels. Besides writing under her pen name, she also writes her novels under her original name. One of the novels written under her pen name was nominated for the Hugo Award in the year 2013 in the category of the Best Novel. In fact, she made a unique record that year after getting nominated for a total of 5 Hugo Awards, two for her works under her pen name Mira Grant and the remaining three under her original name. Author Grant was born and brought up in Northern Carolina and throughout her life until becoming a full time writer, she used to study the horror movies for most of the time of the day. As a young enthusiast, she was also interested in horrible viruses and the inevitable threats to the human beings from the living dead. While studying in her college, she was selected by majority voting as the most likely person to summon something very horrible in the Cornfield. Grant was also one of the founding members of the survival camp called as Horror Movie Sleep Away. As a member of the group, she has an unbreakable record of the maximum time spent to survive the scenario of the Swamp Cannibals.