Maureen F. McHugh (born February 13, 1959[1]) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

[1] It was followed by a pair of publications under her own name in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1989.

[1] In 1996 she won a Hugo Award for her short story "The Lincoln Train" (1995).

[2] 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.