heather hughes is a poet, academic publishing professional, and letterpress printer who hangs her heart in her current city of Somerville and her native Miami. Her poems recently appear or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Vinyl Poetry, and Whiskey Island, among others. She is a writer for Mass Poetry online and a graduate of Lesley University's MFA. Find her online at birdmaddgirl.com.