sara e. hughes is a Massachusetts-born poet and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received an honorable mention for the American Poets College & University Prize in 2022. She is a 2022 Wild Seeds Writer’s Retreat Fellow and a 2022 Aspen Words participant. sara is the recipient of the 2021 Elaine V. Beilin, Howard Hirt, and Marjorie Sparrow Awards of Framingham State University. She holds a BA in English from Framingham State University and is a 2024 Nancy Craig Blackburn Fellow at Randolph College (MFA). sara has been an editor for the Colorado Review, New American Press, Typehouse Press, and Revolute Magazine. ​

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sara’s work has appeared in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Superstition Review, and December Magazine. Her work is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine and Tofu Ink Press. ​​​​