CV

Luther Hughes - Curriculum Vitae (CV)

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of English, May 2018; Poetry; Master’s Thesis: You’ll Never Love Me; Committee Members: Carl Phillips and francine j. harris

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Department of Creative Writing, 2016; Poetry

BOOKS
Touched, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018 (chapbook)
A Shiver in the Leaves, BOA Editions, 2022

PUBLICATIONS
Poetry (in Anthologies)
2023 “My Mother, My Mother.” What Things Costs. Ed. Rebecca Gayle Howell and Ashley M. Jones. The University Press of Kentucky.
2022    “Tenor.” Queer Nature. Ed. Michael Walsh. Autumn House Press.
2021    “Culture” and “Prayer.” Home is Where Your Queer Heart. Ed. Miah Jeffra Miller, Arisa White, and Monique Williams. Foglifter Press.
2018    “Not Splendor” and “Self-Portrait as Crow.” Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America. Ed. Maria Isabel Alvarez.
            “Suicide Note #1.” Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated for Queer Poets of Color. Ed. Christopher Soto. Nightbooks.
2017    “Little Phoenix.” Crab Fat Magazine: Best of Year Three. Ed. Caseyrenée Lopez. Damage Goods Press.
2016    “Ode to Seattle or My Body or Water.” We Sweat Honeysuckle. Ed. Sarah Maria Medina. Winter Tangerine.

Poetry (in Print)
2024 “This, Too, Shall Be Named.” Seattle Met. February.
2021    “Given” and “Into the City I Become Become.” American Poetry Review. March/April. Vol 50. No 2.
            “Making the Bed.” Southeast Review. April 2021. Vol. 39, No. 1.
            “Inside the River, I Covet.” Poetry Northwest. Winter & Spring 2021.
2020    “Near Sacrament.” Orion Magazine. Winter 2020.
            “Leave the Crows Out of It,” “Mercy,” and “Thine Will Be Done.” Poetry. December.
            “Stay Safe.” Poetry. March.
2019    “Dearest,” “From Dusk,” and “Humidity.” Foglifter Journal. 4.2:
            “The River” and “The Fever.” Washington Square Review. 43: Spring 2019
2018    “Tenor.” Poetry. December.
            “Culture.” New England Review. 39.2
            “A Wretch Like Me” and “Considering Death.” Bat City Review. 14.
            “I Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am” and “Still Life Elegy.” The Journal. 42.1.
2017    “Touch Began with My Brother” and “Without a Stitch.” Yemassee Journal. 24.2.
            “Any Black Thing.” Columbia Poetry Review. No. 30.
2016    “Ode to the Middle Passage.” No Dear. 18, #BlackPoetsSpeakOut.
            “The Body Stays & Everyone Won’t Understand.” No Assholes. 9.
2015    “Letters to Langston #38.” Four Chambers Press. 03.

Poetry (Online)
2024 “The Truest Act.” wildness. October 2024, Issue 35
“Ekphrasis” and “Nocturne.” Rejoinder Magazine. Issue 9.
“Witness.” Seattle Met. February.
2022    “[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm].” Poem-a-day, Academy of American Poets.
2021    “When Struck by Night.” Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets.
            “Death of a Moth.” Poetry Northwest. Winter & Spring 2021.
2020    “Aubade.” Sporklet 13.
            “My Mother, My Mother.” Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets.
            “It Is February.” Paris Review.
2019    “Such Things Require Tenderness,” “The Dead Are Beautiful Tonight,” and “The Wind Did What the Wind Came to Do.” The Rumpus
2018    “There Will Be Mourning,” Glass: A Poetry Journal. Poets Resist: 2018 Midterm Elections.
            “A Shiver in the Leaves,” “Prayer,” and “Passed Down.” Dreginald. 15.
            “Heat,” “In Seattle,” “Nocturne,” “Obsession Gets on One Knee,” and “The Crow.” Winter Tangerine, Lineage of Mirrors. September 2018.
            “As the Fog Rolls In, Night Finds Its Footing.” Four Way Review. Spring 18, Issue 13.
            “Faith Opens the Trapdoor” and “What Goes Around, Stays.” Up the Staircase Quarterly.
            “Fallen Angel.” TriQuarterly.
2017    “Innocence and a Side of Sovereignty.” BOAAT Journal.
            “You’ll Never Love Me.” The Adroit Journal.
            “He Went Away Without Bidding Anyone Farwell.” Tinderbox Journal. 4.4
            “I Want to Talk About Water.” The Boiler Journal. 24.
            “From the Lynched” and “Riding with Death.” Underblong Journal.
            “And So a Light” and “Survey of Lust.” Cosmonauts Avenue.
            “Trayvon.” The Shallow Ends.
            “Alternate Ending with Weeping,” “How I Am Abusive,” “Into Winter,” “Keeper,” “Little Phoenix,” and “Touched.” Crab Fat Magazine.
2016    “Vid 023.” Sidekick Lit. 3.
            “Pond with Blood.” The James Franco Review. Issue: Reimagining.
            “Hominal” and “Psalms.” Construction Literary Magazine.
            “Suicide Note #1.” Nepantla. 3.
            “Ceremonies,” “How We Surrender,” “Sestina for the Sadistic,” and “When Your Grandfather Dies.” Nailed Magazine.
            “If It’s About Abuse, Then Yes, I’ll Answer the Questions.” Winter Tangerine. 1.
            “A Question of Rain,” “Broken Ghazal for Osteoarthritis,” and “Broken Sonnet for Osteoarthritis.” The James Franco Review. 7.
            “How to Stop Drowning,” “Ode to the Black Object,” and “This Is Not Zion.” Public Pool.
            “Baptism.” The Offing.
            “Effigy.” Vinyl.
            “Hunting Season: Boys” and “Offering.” Solstice Literary Magazine.
            “Someday I’ll Love Luther Hughes, Myself.” Day One Amazon.
2015    “A Matter of Body” and “Tradition.” IDK Magazine. 2.
            “Episode 424: Papa’s Got a Brand New Excuse” and “Thanksgiving with the Huxtables.” Kinfolks Quarterly. 1.3.
            “Chains.” Muzzle Magazine. 16.
            “Chordae Tendineae” and “Hereditary.” The Bleeding Lion. 2.
            “Clay” and “Writing a Eulogy.” Word Riot.
            “How We Forget.” About Place Journal. 3.3.2.
            “Almost an Elegy.” Chelsea Station Magazine.
            “Letters to Langston #37.” Good Men Project.
            “Object #1: Your Sim Makes a Face at His Own Body After ‘Woo Hoo.’” Curator Magazine.
            “For the Nostalgic.” Modern Poetry Quarterly Review.

Fiction (Online)
2018 “The Distance Between Sunrise and Sunset.” WILDNESS. August 2018.

Essay (in Anthologies)
2018 “Of Breath: A Collaborative Essay after Montaigne.” They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing. Ed. Simone Muench and Dean Reader

Essay (in Print)
2022 “How to Live.” Poetry Northwest. Summer & Fall 2022.
2018 “On Vulnerability.” Hayden’s Ferry Review. Fall/Winter, Issue 63.

Essay (Online)
2022    “What’s Beyond the Horizon of Your Obsession?” Catapult.
2021    “When the Years are Gone: On Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove.” Poetry Northwest. November 29, 2019.
2019    Little Death – “Desire’s Little Illusion,” “The Masturbatory I,” “On Power (originally published in The Paris Review Zine),” and “Must Be Love on the Brain.” Winter Tangerine. January.
2018    “Not an Elegy.” Poetry Northwest. November 19, 2018.
            “On Robert Hayden: Did I, then, choose bizzarity, having no other choice.” Winter Tangerine, Lineage of Mirrors. September 2018.

Interview (in Print)
2018 “I belong to many places”: A Q&A with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, The Seattle Times

Interview (Online)
2018 “Girl, I guess there’s some glamour in it”: A Conversation with Justin Phillip Reed, STL Magazine

PROJECTS & INITIATIVES
2021    Kick Your Feet Up Reading Series. Shade Literary Arts. Ongoing
2021    “The Evergreen.” Shade Literary Arts. Ongoing.
2020    Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund. Shade Literary Arts. Ended in 2021.
2018    “Lue’s Poetry Hour.” Via tinyletter.com/lutherxhughes. Ongoing.
2018    “You Smell Like Outside.” Frontier Poetry – Ended in 2020.
2017    Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer Writers of Color. Ongoing annually.

AWARDS/HONORS
2025 Honoree, Most Influential, Seattle Magazine.
2024 Honoree, Black Arts Legacies, Cascade PBS, Crosscut.
2022 Shortlisted for the 2022 Reads Rainbow Awards
2020    92Y Discovery Poetry Prize Recipient
2018    Bettering American Poetry Nominee, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 4, “little phoenix.”
2017    Pushcart Prize Nominee, Yemassee, “Touch Began with My Brother”
            Pushcart Prize Nominee, Hot Metal Bridge, “Homo Sapien”
            Best New Poets Nominee, Hot Metal Bridge, “Homo Sapien”
2016    Winner of the Brutal Nation Poetry Prize, Blueshift Journal, “Vid 001”
            Windy City Times 30 Under 30 Honoree
            Pushcart Prize Nominee, WILDNESS, “Something Hominal”
2015    Pushcart Prize Nominee, IDK Magazine, “A Matter of Body”
            Best of Net Anthology Nominee, Good Men Project, “Essex, Jordan, and the Old Black Man”

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/SCHOLOARSHIPS
2022 Aninstantia Foundation, Grant Recipient
2020    Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship
2017    The Conversation Literary Festival, Fellowship
            Cave Canem, Fellow
2016    We Sweat Honeysuckle, Winter Tangerine, Fellowship

READINGS & CONVERSATIONS (SELECTED)
2024 Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Get Lit! Literary Festival, Spokane, WA.
2023 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA.
2022    Words Work: “I Know What You Mean” a conversation with Morgan Parker, Hugo House, Seattle, WA
2021    2020 and 2021 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize Recipients Reading. 92Y Poetry Center, New York, NY.
    Lakeside High School, Seattle, WA. Virtual.
    Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. Virtual.
2020    “Black Lives Matter Benefit.” Hugo House, Seattle, WA. Virtual.
2018    “Cocktails + Conversation / Fireside Poetry.” Laumeire Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO.
2017    “OUT Grad.” Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
2015    “Chicago Book Expo.” Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.

PRESS & FEATURES
2025 “Most Influential: Luther Hughes.” Seattle Magazine.
2024 “Watch: Luther Hughes.” Crosscut, Black Arts Legacies.
2023 “Poet Luther Hughes Remembers Dwone Anderson-Young and Ahmed Said.” KUOW Radio. April 2023.
2022  “Best Books of 2022.” The New Yorker.
“Briefly Noted.” The New Yorker. November 2022.
“Luther Hughes’ ‘A Shiver in the Leaves’ Explores Black Embodiment and Queer Desire.” South Seattle Emerald. September 2022.
“15 New Fall Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall.” Essence Magazine. September 2022.
“Seattle Poet Luther Hughes on ‘A Shiver in the Leaves,’ his debut collection.” Seattle Times. September 2022.
“Four rising Seattle artists to watch.” Crosscut.
            “9 Debut Authors on the Books They Love.” Shondaland.com.
2020    “The Founder of Shade Literary Arts On Launching A Relief Fund For Queer Writers Of Color.” Forbes.com
            “Luther Hughes BA ‘16 Has Been Awarded Numerous Prizes in 2020.” Columbia College Chicago.
            “Dinnerview: Luther Hughes.” Entropy Magazine
            “Creatures of Giving.” Poetry Off the Shelf
2019    “Pushcart Darlings: The Foglifter Interview with Luther Hughes.” Foglifter Journal
2018    “Editors Talk Poetry Acceptances: Luther Hughes, The Shade Journal.” Frontier Poetry
            “Luther Hughes Reads ‘Tenor.’” Poetry Magazine Podcast

TEACHING/MENTOR EXPERIENCE
Mentor, 2024
Seattle Theatre Group - Elevate, Seattle, WA

Instructor, 2024
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

Instructor, 2024
United Way of Clallam, Virtual

Mentor, 2017-Present
The Speakeasy Project, Virtual

Instructor, Fall 2021
Brooklyn Poets, Virtual
Just Say It: The Art of Storytelling

Instructor, Spring 2021
Hugo House, Virtual
Reaching for Joy

Guest Lecturer, Winter 2021
Williams College, Virtual
The Political Act of Vulnerability
Writing Your History

Instructor, Fall 2020
Hugo House, Virtual
The Political Act of Vulnerability

Mentor, Summer 2019
The Adroit Journal Summer Program, Virtual

Tutor, Fall 2018
Liddane Tutoring, Seattle, WA

Assistant Instructor, Spring 2018
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of English
L13 Writing 490: Creative Writing Capstone Seminar

Advisor, Spring 2016
Winter Tangerine, Virtual
Sing That Like Dovesong Workshop

Teaching Artist Assistant, Spring 2015
Hamline Elementary, Chicago, IL
Open Books

EDITORIAL POSITIONS
July 2016 – Present              Founder, The Shade Journal
May 2024 – June 2024 Poetry Contest Judge, Bellingham Review
April 2024 – June 2024 Poetry Contest Judge, League of Innovation
April 2024 – May 2024 Reader, Witch & Warriors Retreat
January 2024 – April 2024 Guest Poetry Editor, The Poet Lore
October 2022 – May 2023 Poetry Contest Judge, Wabash Poetry Prize
May 2022 – November 2022 Poetry Chapbook Contest Judge, Quarterly West
February 2022 – March 2022     Poetry Contest Judge, The Lumiere Review
September 2020 – January 2021 Guest Editor, TriQuarterly Magazine
September 2018 – January 2021 Executive Editor, The Offing Magazine
October 2019 – March 2020      Editor, YesYes Books
January 2019 – March 2020      Editor At-Large, Frontier Poetry
June 2016 – Aug 2018             Associate Poetry Editor, The Offing Magazine
December 2015 – June 2016     Assistant Poetry Editor, The Offing Magazine
September 2015 – May 2016     Editorial Board Member, Columbia Poetry Review
September 2015 – May 2016     Poetry Editor, Habitat Magazine
August 2015 – December 2015 Poetry Reader, The Offing Magazine

AFFILIATIONS
Brew & Forge Book Fair
Co-Coordinator. 2024 – Present
The Offing Magazine
            Board Member. Present.
Seattle City of Literature
            Board Member. Present.
Artist Trust
            Program Co-Director. Present
            Program Manager. 2020 – 2021.
            Operations Coordinator. 2019 – 2020.
The Poet Salon Podcast
            Co-Host. 2019 – Present.
Lambda Literary
            Panelist. 2021.
National Endowment for the Arts
            Panelist. 2019.
TMZ Live
            Guest Correspondent. 2019.

REFRENCES
Available upon request.