Maureen F. McHugh
Maureen F. McHugh ( born February 13, 1959 in Loveland, Ohio) is an American science fiction author.
Life and work
Maureen F. McHugh grew up in Loveland on the American state of Ohio. She studied at Ohio University and New York University, where she earned a master's degree in 1984 in English Literature. They lived for several years in New York, where she worked as a teacher at a college as a secretary and as a technical writer. She spent a year in Shijiazhuang in China and published in this period under the pseudonym Michael Galloglach her first short story, All in a Day 's Work .. Then they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a technical writer at a company in the medical worked area. Here she met her future husband, Bob Yeager, whom she married in 1992 .. In the same year her first novel, China Mountain Zhang ( Zhang dt ABC ), which was nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award received. Since then she has published three more novels that have not been translated into German. In addition, a variety of short stories, of which The Lincoln Train 1995 Hugo Award and the Locus Award received appeared. In 2004, Hodgkin 's lymphoma was diagnosed with McHugh. About their experiences with this disease, it has now been overcome, she reported at this time in her blog. In addition to her literary career McHugh worked for the company 4orty2wo Entertainment, the Alternate reality games developed. In March 2009, she founded her own company with two colleagues in this Berieich, No Mimes Media. McHugh currently lives with her husband in Austin (Texas ).
Novels
- China Mountain Zhang. New York, Tor, 1992, ISBN 0-312-85271-1 (German ABC Zhang. Heyne, Munich, 1995, ISBN 3-453-07972-8 ).
- Half the Day is Night. New York, Tor, 1994, ISBN 0-312-85479- X.
- Mission Child. New York, Avon, 1998, ISBN 0-380-97456-8.
- Necropolis. New York, Harper Collins, 2002, ISBN 0-380-97457-6.