Maureen F. McHugh

Maureen F. McHugh (born 1959) is an American science fiction writer known for quiet, character-focused stories about ordinary people adapting to disorienting future societies. Her debut novel, China Mountain Zhang (1992), set in a future in which China has become the dominant global power, won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her short story "The Lincoln Train," imagining an alternate post-Civil War deportation of Confederates, won the Hugo Award in 1996, and her collection After the Apocalypse won the Shirley Jackson Award. McHugh has also written the novels Half the Day Is Night, Mission Child, and Nekropolis, and the story collection Mothers and Other Monsters. Beyond fiction, she has worked on alternate-reality games, co-founding the studio No Mimes Media in 2009.