C. Luke Soucy

C. LUKE SOUCY is a translator, classicist, 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 vocal libretti and classical scholarship have appeared in Arion, Light, and on poets.org, and his new verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, released by the University of California Press in 2023, received the Society for Classical Studies' inaugural Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation and was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. His next book, Queer Roman Verse: An Anthology, is forthcoming from Norton/Liveright in 2026. He is currently at work on a translation of Horace's Ars Poetica.

 

Soucy is an increasingly less recent graduate of Princeton University, where he currently works in the Department of Classics. In addition to literary translation, Soucy has worked in the regional theater, in a chromatography lab, and as a horror podcast narrator. He now resides in Princeton, New Jersey, where he can usually be found squinting into the distance or walking back from the grocery store. Soucy is twenty-nine years old.​

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