Jessica McHugh

{{short description|American novelist}} {{infobox writer  | birth_name = Jessica Brianne Bonito | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|11|15}} | occupation = Writer | genre = Speculative fiction | website = {{URL|http://www.Mchughniverse.com}} | portaldisp = }}

'''Jessica McHugh''' (born November 15, 1982) is an American author of speculative fiction,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://workingwritersandbloggers.com/2009/09/16/interview-jessica-mchugh/|title=Interview: Jessica McHugh – Working Writers|last=Poster|first=Guest|access-date=2017-01-17|archive-date=2019-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121101316/http://workingwritersandbloggers.com/2009/09/16/interview-jessica-mchugh/|url-status=dead}}</ref> member of the Maryland Writers Association, and an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. A prolific writer, she has had eighteen books published by small presses in seven years. Her first play "Fool Call It Fate: A Story of Sex, Coincidence, and an Electronic Cigarette", produced at The Mobtown Theater, was chosen as the Best New Play of 2011 by Baltimore Broadway World.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Baltimore-2011-Awards-Winners-Announced-20120113|title=BWW Baltimore 2011 Awards Winners Announced!|last=BWW|newspaper=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Novels=== *''Camelot Lost'' (2008) (as Jessica Bonito) *''A Touch of Scarlet'' (2009) ({{ISBN|9781926704203}}) *''Song of Eidolons'' (2009) ({{ISBN|161658274X}}) *''From the Herald's Wearied Eye'' (2010) *''The Sky: The World'' (2010) *''Tales of Dominhydor'' **''Maladrid (Book One)'' (2010) **''Yven (Book Two)'' (2011) **''Palaplia (Book Three)'' (2011) *''Rabbits in the Garden'' (2011) *''Danny Marble & the Application for Non-Scary Things'' (2011) *''Play the Way Home'' (2012) (as E.J. McCain) *''PINS'' (2012) *''The Maiden Voyage'' (2014) *''The Darla Decker Diaries'' **''Darla Decker Hates to Wait'' (2014) **''Darla Decker Takes the Cake'' (2014) **''Darla Decker Shakes the State'' (2015) **''Darla Decker Plays it Straight'' (2016) **''Darla Decker Breaks the Case'' (2017) *''The Green Kangaroos'' (2014) *''The Train Derails in Boston'' (2016) *''Nightly Owl, Fatal Raven'' (2018)

===Collections=== *''Virtuoso at Masturbation, and More McHughmorous Musings'' (2013) *''The Maiden Voyage & Other Departures'' (2018) *''A Complex Accident of Life'' (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Lionel Ray |title=An Interview With Jessica McHugh |url=https://horrortree.com/wihm-an-interview-with-jessica-mchugh-2/ |access-date=2020-04-28 |website=Horror Tree}}</ref>

=== Short stories === *"Begging for Relief" (2010) *"Under the Slide" (2010) *"Gather Ye Rosebuds" (2010) *"My Caroline, My Love" (2010) *"The Last Circus" (2011) *"Resuscitation" (2011) *"Maternal Instincts" (in ''It Lives: What Hath Mother Wrought?'' Anthology from Runewright Publishing, 2011) *"Master Marvel's Menagerie" (in ''Dead Souls'' Anthology from Post Mortem Press, 2011) *"Beer-Basted" (in ''100 Horrors'' Anthology from Cruentus Libri Press, 2012) *"A Ride in the Dream Machine" (in ''Torn Realities'' Anthology from Post Mortem Press, 2012) *"Extraction" (in ''Fear the Abyss'' Anthology from Post Mortem Press, 2012) *"Crazed in Christmas City" (in ''Let It Snow: Season's Readings for a Super Cool Yule'' Anthology, 2012) *"Love Aground" (in ''Zombies Need Love, Too'' Anthology from Dark Moon Books, 2013) *"Mowed" (in ''Dark Bits'' Anthology from Apokrupha, 2013) *"Auntie Grave" (in ''The Gothic Blue Book III, Graveyard Edition'' Anthology from Burial Day Books, 2013) *"The Brain Train" (in ''Coffin Hop: Death By Drive-In'' Anthology, 2013) *"On the Shoulders of Muses" (in ''Allegories of the Tarot'' Anthology, 2013) *"Food For Thought" (One Night Stand, Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2013) *"The Right Stuff" (in ''Tall Tales with Short Cocks volume 4'' Anthology from Rooster Republic Press, 2013) *"A Fate My Lover Feared" (in ''Fur and Fang'' Anthology from Apokrupha LLC, 2014) *"The Riddled Heart" (in ''Lucky 13'' Anthology from Padwolf Publishing, 2014) *"A Ribbon, A Rover" (in ''Truth or Dare'' Anthology from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2014) *"Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" (in Jamais Vu: The Journal of Strange Among the Familiar, 2014) *"Domestic Hate" (in ''Potatoes'' Anthology from Fringeworks LLC, 2014) *"Blue Moon Over Gigi" (in ''Vignettes from the End of the World'' Anthology from Apokrupha, 2014)

===Plays=== *"Fools Call It Fate" (Lazy Bee Scripts, 2010) *"Two Grunts For Yes" (Lazy Bee Scripts, 2017)

== References ==  {{Reflist}}

== External links == *''[http://www.mchughniverse.com Official Website]'' *''[http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/art_life/display_lifestyle.htm?storyID=100130 Obeying the Pen, Frederick News Post] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313190029/http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/art_life/display_lifestyle.htm?storyID=100130 |date=2012-03-13 }}''

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