Lue Hughes

Lue Hughes
Born1991 (age 34–35)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Poet
  • editor
Writing career
GenrePoetry
Notable workA Shiver in the Leaves

Lue Hughes (born 1991) is an American poet and editor. She is the author of the poetry collection A Shiver in the Leaves (2022). Her honors include a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize.[1][2][3][4][5]

Early life and education

Hughes was born in 1991 and grew up in the Seattle area.[3][6] She was raised in Skyway and attended Renton High School.[7] Hughes earned a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.[3][7] After completing her MFA in 2018, she returned to Seattle.[6][7]

Career

While at Columbia College Chicago, Hughes started the Shade Blog, which later became the Shade Journal and Shade Literary Arts, a literary platform for queer writers of color.[7][8] She has worked as an editor for Columbia Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, YesYes Books, and The Offing.[3] She also co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat.[2]

Hughes's chapbook Touched was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2018.[2] Reviews in RHINO and wildness discussed the chapbook's treatment of touch, trauma, and the body.[9][10]

BOA Editions published Hughes's first full-length poetry collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, in 2022.[11][12] South Seattle Emerald described the book as set in South Seattle and concerned with queerness, Blackness, love, and depression.[12] The New Yorker reviewed the collection in its Briefly Noted column, writing that "brutality and tenderness" run through poems about desire, depression, family, faith, violence, nature, and the body.[13]

In 2020, Hughes created the Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund. Seattle Magazine reported in 2025 that the fund had raised $55,500 for 215 queer artists of color.[7]

Awards and honors

  • 2020: 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize[5]
  • 2020: Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship[4]

Works

  • Touched (chapbook). Sibling Rivalry Press. 2018.
  • A Shiver in the Leaves. BOA Editions. 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-67-8.[11][14]

References

  1. ↑ "Luther Hughes". Luther "Lue" Hughes. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "About Luther "Lue" Hughes". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Luther Hughes". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Poetry Foundation Announces the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships Winners". Poetry Foundation. September 10, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  5. 1 2 The Paris Review (May 22, 2020). "The Winners of 92Y's 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest". The Paris Review. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  6. 1 2 Keimig, Jas (June 21, 2024). "Read & Watch: Luther Hughes". Black Arts Legacies. Cascade PBS. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Gallaher, Rachel (January 8, 2025). "Most Influential: Luther Hughes". Seattle Magazine. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  8. ↑ "About". Shade Literary Arts. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  9. ↑ Pérez, Emily (October 10, 2020). "Review of Touched by Luther Hughes". RHINO. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  10. ↑ February, Logan. "Touched by Luther Hughes". wildness. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  11. 1 2 "A Shiver in the Leaves". BOA Editions. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  12. 1 2 Ong, Amanda (October 7, 2022). "Luther Hughes' 'A Shiver in the Leaves' Explores Black Embodiment and Queer Desire". South Seattle Emerald. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. November 14, 2022. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
  14. ↑ Chaffa, Mandana (December 23, 2022). "A Handful of Poetry Books to Savor Now and Later". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved April 26, 2026.
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