About

E. Hughes is the author of the poetry collection Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2024. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Rumps, Guernica Magazine, Poet Lore, Indiana Review, and Gulf Coast Magazine—among others. They are a Cave Canem fellow and have been a finalist for the 2021 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, longlisted for the 2021 Granum Fellowship Prize, and a semifinalist of the 2022 and 2023 92Y Discovery Contest. In 2021, they received their MFA+MA from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University. Currently, Hughes is a PhD student in Philosophy at Emory University studying black aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism.  

 

E. Hughes Curriculum Vitae (2023)