Like Whitman's "Song of Myself," Hughes' Sugar Factory is a laud for the land, a deep song of praise for the ecstasy in the ordinary. Riding the train, peeling fruit, contemplating streaks of color-here we find everyday encounters opening doorways to memory, both intimate and ancestral. The result is a quietly fierce collection of poems that spans coasts and continents as it boldly "carries the voices of the living/and the dead."
Patricia Killelea

Emily Wallis Hughes is a poet and editor who grew up in Agua Caliente, California, a small town in the Sonoma Valley. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Elderly, Gigantic Magazine, Luna Luna Magazine, Menage, Painted Bride Quarterly, A Women's Thing, ZAUM, and other little magazines. She co-edited Slovene avant-garde poet Jure Detela's Moss & Silver, translated by Raymond Miller with Tatjana Jamnik (Ugly Duckling Presse). She earned an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing-Poetry from the University of California, Davis, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Emily currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers-New Brunswick and composition at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She lives in Brooklyn, where she volunteers for Fence Books and Ugly Duckling Presse.