Maureen F. McHugh


Maureen F. McHugh is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
WWW maureenfmchugh.com

Career

McHugh published her first story in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1988, under the pseudonym Michael Galloglach. This was followed by a pair of publications under her own name in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989. Since then, she has written four novels and over twenty short stories.
Her first novel, China Mountain Zhang, was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 1996, she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train". Her short story collection Mothers and Other Monsters was shortlisted as a finalist for the Story Prize in December 2005. In 2013, she was a Readercon guest of honor with Patricia A. McKillip.
McHugh has worked as a writer and/or managing editor for numerous alternate reality game projects, including Year Zero and I Love Bees for 42 Entertainment. Since 2009 she has been a partner at No Mimes Media, an alternate reality game company that she co-founded with Steve Peters and Behnam Karbassi.

Works

Novels

Collections

Stories (partial list)

  • "All in a Day's Work"
  • "Kites"
  • "Baffin Island"
  • "The Queen of Marincite"
  • "Render unto Caesar"
  • "Protection"
  • "The Missionary's Child"
  • "The Beast"
  • "Tut's Wife"
  • "A Foreigner's Christmas in China"
  • "Whispers"
  • "A Coney Island of the Mind"
  • "Virtual Love"
  • "Nekropolis"
  • "The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela"
  • "The Lincoln Train"
  • "Joss"
  • "In the Air"
  • "Learning to Breathe"
  • "Homesick"
  • "The Cost to Be Wise"
  • "Interview: On Any Given Day"
  • "Presence"
  • "Ancestor Money"
  • "Eight-Legged Story"
  • "Frankenstein's Daughter"
  • "Cannibal Acts"
  • "Yellow and the Perception of Reality"

Alternate reality games