Lue Hughes

Lue Hughes (born 1991) is an American poet and editor. She is the author of the poetry collection A Shiver in the Leaves. Her honors include a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize.

Early life and education Hughes was born in 1991 and grew up in the Seattle area. She was raised in Skyway and attended Renton High School. Hughes earned a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She has worked as an editor for Columbia Poetry Review, Frontier Poetry, YesYes Books, and The Offing.

BOA Editions published Hughes's first full-length poetry collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, in 2022. South Seattle Emerald described the book as set in South Seattle and concerned with queerness, Blackness, love, and depression.

In 2020, Hughes created the Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund. Seattle Magazine reported in 2025 that the fund had raised $55,500 for 215 queer artists of color.