Ian McHugh’s first success as a speculative fiction writer was winning the short story contest at the 2004 Australian national SF convention. Since then he has sold stories to professional and semi-pro magazines and anthologies in Australia, USA, UK and Canada. He has also dabbled in book reviewing, convention organising and illustrating. He is a 2006 graduate of the Clarion West writers’ workshop. In 2007 he won a quarterly 1st prize in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest, and in 2008 was awarded the annual gold prize. Ian lives in Canberra, Australia and is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. He is currently at work on a novel and a short story cycle, both set in the same fantasy Australia as his WotF-winning story.
photo by Patrick Lundrigan
