Luke Allan is a poet, editor, and typographer. He is the author of Sweet Dreams, the Sea (Poetry Society of America, 2025)* and a book of lyrical non-fiction titled The End (Allen Lane | Ecco, forthcoming 2027). His poetry and non-fiction are published in the TLS, The Paris Review, Granta, Poetry, the Literary Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and The White Review, and have received the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Westerly Life Writing Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, and the Charles Causley Prize. His writing is represented by Victoria Hobbs at A. M. Heath.
Allan is editor-in-chief of Oxford Poetry and poetry editor at Partus Press. Previously he edited poetry for Carcanet Press and PN Review and co-founded the magazines Pain and Butcher’s Dog. He has a Master’s in creative writing from the University of Oxford and an mfa in book arts from the University of Iowa, and is currently a phd student at the University of Cambridge, researching poetry and typography. He designs books as Studio Lamont.
