About \ Bio

Emily Wallis Hughes is the author of Sugar Factory (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and my friend Now (Spuyten Duyvil, forthcoming March 2027). Her poems have been published in Always Crashing, The American Poetry Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Conduit, Cordella, Edible Jersey, Elderly, Gigantic Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prelude, The Sacramento News & Review, Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry, Winter in America (Still, A Woman’s Thing, and many others. Spanish translations of her poems have been published in Buenos Aires Poetry and Perfil. At Rutgers University New–Brunswick, Hughes teaches in the undergraduate Creative Writing program. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University and an M.A. in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of California, Davis. A 2026 recipient of an individual artist grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, Hughes lives a half-hour walk from where her mother lived as a child in Jackson Heights, in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, where she collaboratively leads Fence Magazine, Inc., a small not-for-profit independent publisher of Fence Books as well as Fence, an internationally-distributed literary arts journal.

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