Hughes graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, with a BA (Hons.)
[1] In June 2002, she received an Invention and Innovation award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts for her project Forty Years.
In February 2010, she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.
[4] In April 2023, Hughes appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Saturday Live speaking about her book George about her rescue of a magpie chick.
Hughes's poems have also been published in The New Yorker, Tatler, The Spectator, Thumbscrew, The Paris Review, First Pressings, The London Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph among others.