Born in the US, McHugh moved to Ireland as a child. She was educated in the National University of Ireland in Galway where she graduated with a B.A. in English and History, and then an M.A. in English. After living overseas for a while McHugh returned to Ireland and to education where she gained a Diploma in Film studies at NUIG, a Foundation Course in Filmmaking at the Galway Film Centre, and finally a second M.A. in Screenwriting at the Huston School of Film and Digital Media.[2][3]
Career
Based in Galway, McHugh is the author of Róisín Dubh and Jennifer Wilde. She is also editor of the Writers Guild of Ireland fortnightly newsletter, as well as the guild's website and blog.[4][5]
McHugh has been a regular judge for the Galway Junior Film Fleadh, the British Comic Awards, and Octocon's Golden Blasters, as well as having been a judge for The Shirley Jackson Awards. She also curated "The Image" during the Hay festival in Kells.[6] She was Guest of Honour at the 2015 Octocon (the Irish National Science Fiction Convention).
In 2018, she was invited to take part in an initiative of the Creative Europe project, a 10-day residency in Angoulême in France.[7] Since 2018, she has worked on a number of Judge Anderson stories for Rebellion, including a novella published in 2020.
Mustn’t Grumble, Voices from the Past, 2011*The Hanging Tree, Black Static issue #38, 2014
Valerie in the anthology La Femme, edited by Ian Whates from NewCon Press and in Obsidian, 2014
Family in the anthology Cassilda’s Song, edited by Joe S. Pulver from Chaosium Inc, 2015
A Decade of Horror Stories by Women, edited by Ian Whates from NewCon Press, 2016
Zel and Grets in the anthology The Grimm Future, edited by Erin Underwood from NESFA Press.
Moments on the Cliff’ Crannóg.
Listen Women in Horror Month Anthology, Acid Cane Comics.
The Light at the Centre, Uncertainties Volume 1, edited by Brian J. Showers for Swan River Press
The Fruit of the Tree, Ten Tall Tales, edited by Ian Whates for NewCon Press.
Spooky Girl, Respectable Horror, edited by Kate Laity for Fox Spirit Books.
A Rebellious House, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, edited by Joe S. Pulver for Fedogan and Bremer.
Plays, Films and Podcasts
29 October – 3 November 2012‘The Night-Born Sisters’, performed in the Leicester Square Theatre, London.
6 May 2016 The Love of Small Appliances, directed by Justine Nakase.[12]
Bone Mother, Pseudopod, 2009
The Tamga, Pseudopod, 2010
Vic Dark fiction Magazine, 2011
Hotel Training, directed by Conor McMahon, premiered as part of the Hotel Darklight anthology film, 2009
Bone Mother is being adapted as a short stop-motion animated film by Sylvie Trouvé and Dale Hayward. Produced for the National Film Board of Canada by Jelena Popovic, 2016[13]
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