Emily Wallis Hughes grew up in Agua Caliente, California. Her first book of poems, Sugar Factory, containing a series of paintings by Sarah Riggs in conversation with Emily's poems, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2019. Her poems have been published in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Cordella, Elderly, Gigantic Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prelude, ZAUM, and other magazines.  She edits Elecment at Fence and teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Rutgers-New Brunswick.