Luke Fiske is a graduate of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and New York University’s Creative Writing Program.

His short fiction has been published recently or is forthcoming in The Connecticut Review,Literal Latte, The Georgetown Review, and New Contrast, among other journals; an essay on Cape Town first appeared in the book A City Imagined: Cape Town and the Meanings of a Place; and many of his blurbs have appeared in the Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker. Luke has been a prize winner and finalist in numerous short story competitions, including from Narrative Magazine, Glimmer Train, Literal Latte, and The Georgetown Review. He was a Skye Foundation Scholarship winner in 2003 and Young Writer in Residence at the University of Cape Town in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

He currently divides his time between Cape Town and New York City, where he is a Lecturer in Expository Writing at New York University. He is completing a collection of short stories, Peace Comes to Those Who Wait, and a novel, Animal Spirits.

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