- Emily Wallis Hughes
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- Emily Wallis Hughes grew up in Agua Caliente, California, a small town in the Sonoma Valley. She is the author of Sugar Factory, published in 2019, and my friend Now, forthcoming in spring 2027 from Spuyten Duyvil. Ilya Kaminsky noted that Sugar Factory was "absolutely gorgeous lyric fire; one of the subtlest expressions of music I have read this year." Spanish translations of her poems have been published in Buenos Aires Poetry and Perfil, a widely circulated newspaper in Argentina. Poems from her second book, my friend Now, have been published in Always Crashing, The American Poetry Review, Conduit, Cordella Magazine, Edible Jersey, Luna Luna Magazine, and Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. Since 2010, Emily has been in remission from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. She is a Lecturer in the undergraduate Creative Writing Program in the English Department at Rutgers–New Brunswick. At Fence Magazine, Inc., Hughes is Editorial Director and Fence Books Editor, collaboratively leading the small noncommercial independent not-for-profit publisher of Fence Books as well as the literary arts magazine, Fence, which was awarded the Whiting Foundation Literary Magazine Prize in 2018. A 2026 New York State Council on the Arts grant recipient, Emily lives in Astoria, Queens, New York City, just a twenty-minute walk from where her mother lived as a child in Jackson Heights.
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