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 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 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 Norton Liveright in 2026.

 

Soucy is a 2019 graduate of Princeton University, where he concentrated in English and currently works in the Department of Classics. He counts among his many frivolous passions breakfast food, woollen scarves, and murder mysteries set on board 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.​

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