Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire was born and raised in Northern California, resulting in a love of rattlesnakes and an absolute terror of weather.  She shares a crumbling old farmhouse with a variety of cats, far too many books, and enough horror movies to be considered a problem.  Seanan publishes about three books a year, and is widely rumored not to actually sleep.  When bored, Seanan tends to wander into swamps and cornfields, which has not yet managed to get her killed (although not for lack of trying).  She also writes as Mira Grant, filling the role of her own evil twin, and tends to talk about horrible diseases at the dinner table