Luke Fischer

Luke Fischer is a writer, scholar, and award-winning poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015), as well as poems, translations, and articles in journals, anthologies, and academic volumes. He won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize, and was commended in the 2013 FAW Anne Elder Award for a first book of...See more

Luke Fischer is a writer, scholar, and award-winning poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015), as well as poems, translations, and articles in journals, anthologies, and academic volumes. He won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize, and was commended in the 2013 FAW Anne Elder Award for a first book of poems. In 2008, he was awarded a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and Germany and lives in Sydney, Australia. See less