Lue Hughes

Lue Hughes (she/her) is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). She is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, an organization for queer writers of color, and co-host of The Poet Salon podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. Hughes earned a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing has appeared in various journals, and she’s been featured in The Seattle Times, Essence, and ForbesWomen and on KUOW Public Radio.

Hughes has worked as an editor for Habitat magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, YesYes Books, and The Offing. In 2020, she received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and was a winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest.

She lives in the South End of Seattle, where she was born and raised.