Seanan McGuire lives and works in Washington State, where she shares her somewhat idiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and enormous blue cats. When not writing--which is fairly rare--she enjoys travel, and can regularly be found any place where there are cornfields, haunted houses, or frogs. A Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula award-winning author, McGuire released her first book, Rosemary and Rue (the beginning of the October Daye series), in 2009, with more than twenty books across various series following since. She doesn't sleep much.