Luke Fiske
I am a South African-Canadian short story writer and novelist whose work explores the abrupt decisions characters take to re-position themselves at the center of their lives. I studied Creative Writing at New York University and interned at The New Yorker, where I checked facts and wrote blurbs for the Goings On About Town Department. At NYU, I won The Georgetown Review Award, selected out of close to a thousand entries; the Literal Latte Fiction Contest, which was similarly competitive; and placed third in a Glimmer Train contest. I was also a top-ten finalist in Narrative Magazine. My work would go on to be published in The Indiana Review, The Connecticut Review, and Salamander. The story published in Salamander was re-printed in the anthology Twenty in 20: The Best Short Stories of South Africa’s 20 Years of Democracy. I currently live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with my wife and daughter. I am contactable at lukefiske [at] gmail.com.
I am very grateful to the Canada Arts Council for supporting my work in 2022, and the Ontario Arts Council in 2019 and again in 2022.