Maureen F. McHugh

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 (1992), was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, 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 • China Mountain Zhang (1992) • Half the Day Is Night (1994) • Mission Child (1998) • Nekropolis (2001) Review by James Schellenberg. Collections • Mothers and Other Monsters, Small Beer Press (2005) • After the Apocalypse, Small Beer Press (2011) Stories (partial list) • "All in a Day's Work" (1988, ''Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine'') • "Yellow and the Perception of Reality" (2020, Tor.com) Alternate reality games • Year Zero: Writer (2007) • Last Call Poker: Writer and Managing Editor (2005) • I Love Bees: Writer and Managing Editor (2004) == Awards and honors ==