About Me

About Me: Robert Hughey, MFA

I write, teach, and tinker at the crossroads of myth and modern life. Most days I’m translating the ineffable into something you can hold in your hands—an essay, a ritual, a story, a laugh that somehow heals.

My work is less about being “ascended” and more about learning how to stay here—awake, kind, curious—while the world keeps turning. The apprentice part never ends.

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I’ve spent years walking with teachers both ancient and unseen, and with students in classrooms made of fluorescent lights and hopeful sentences. I study how words can build bridges between ordinary time and the luminous currents beneath it. Sometimes those bridges take the form of a poem or a prayer; sometimes it’s just listening well.

People find me when they’re trying to remember something they can’t name. I help them listen for it. Whether I’m guiding a meditation, polishing a passage, or laughing through a moment of doubt, my aim is simple: to make light practical again.

Outside the page, I’m a professor, an editor, and a quiet conspirator for beauty in unlikely places. I believe humor is medicine, love is architecture, and that good art—like good magic—leaves everyone a little freer.

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Written in the quiet between heartbeats.
— Robert Hughey, MFA