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Born to Pakistani parents in Saudi Arabia, Hera Naguib (she/her) is a writer and an educator currently based in Boston where she teaches at Emerson College. Hera completed her PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University, with a focus on global and transnational poetry and an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.

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

Winner of the John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award and the Quarterly West Poetry Prize selected by Sally Wen Mao, her 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. Her first manuscript was a 2022 finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry by the University of Wisconsin Press.

She has led writing workshops as an instructor at Florida State University, Forman Christian College University, Kinnaird College for Women, and Beaconhouse National University. Recently, she lead a seminar “Poetry of Place,” a poetry workshop for young writers at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.