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, he is the recipient of a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellowship and a 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. He received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, the executive editor for The Offing, and a cohost of The Poet Salon podcast alongside Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. He lives in Seattle.