C. Luke Soucy

C. Luke Soucy is a translator, poet, and vocal Minnesota native. Queer, biracial, and generally formal, he began writing in ninth grade out of the foolhardy belief he could impress a boy with a string of acrostic sonnets. More recent efforts ranging from light verse to classical scholarship have been published by Arion, Light, the Classical Outlook, and the Academy of American Poets. His new verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, released by the University of California Press in 2023, received the inaugural Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation and was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. His next book, an anthology of queer Roman verse, is forthcoming from Liveright in 2026.

An increasingly less recent graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in English, muddled through Latin, and received the E. E. Cummings Society Prize of the Academy of American Poets, Soucy's many frivolous passions include breakfast food, trains, murder mysteries, and murder mysteries set aboard trains. In addition to literary translation, Soucy has worked in the regional theater, in a chromatography lab, and as a low-ranking university bureaucrat. He now resides in Princeton, New Jersey, where he can usually be found squinting into the distance or walking back from the grocery store.

He is twenty-eight years old.