About the Author

Luther Hughes is the author of the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). He is the founder of Shade Literary Arts, a literary organization for queer writers of color, and co-hosts The Poet Salon podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. Recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, his writing has been published in various magazines, journals, and newspapers. He received his MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Luther was born and raised in Seattle, where he currently lives and works as an arts administrator.