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Born to Pakistani parents in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Hera Naguib is a writer and an educator. She is the author of the poetry collection Rupture Anthem, forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2026.  

Winner of the John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award and the 2022 Quarterly West Poetry Prize selected by Sally Wen Mao, Hera's work has been published or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, New England Review, Gulf Coast, The Cincinnati Review, Wasafiri, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. 

Hera is a former Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the VIDA Residency Fellowship. Her work has received support from Art Omi, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, GASHER Press, and the Writers Room of Boston.

Hera has led writing workshops in a variety of settings, including Florida State University, Forman Christian College University, Kinnaird College for Women, and Beaconhouse National University, and at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. 

She is currently based in Boston where she teaches at Emerson College.