Luther Hughes

Luther Hughes is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). A Cave Canem graduate fellow, they are the recipient of a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellowship and a 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. They received their MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and are the founder of Shade Literary Arts as well as a cohost of The Poet Salon podcast alongside Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. They live in Seattle.