Photo Credit: Lucas Scheelk
Lucas Scheelk
b. 1988
Current City, State, Country
Washington, Pacific Northwest, USA (Turtle Island)
Birth City, State, Country
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Turtle Island)
Biography
Lucas Scheelk (they/them) is an autistic queer white Jew. They’re a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. If you’re a Halachic Daydream, a collector of Special Interest Badges, love literary mashups, or in search of prayers inside pomegranate seeds, Scheelk’s poetry may be for you! You can find their work in Taco Bell Quarterly, Autonomous Press, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Pandemic Publications, Rejection Letters, scissors & spackle, queerlings, Mollyhouse, Stone of Madness Press, and the Bare (one’s) Breast Postcard Project, among others.
Published Works
A Prayer For A Non-Religious Autistic (Mason Jar Press, 2022)
Holmes Is A Person As Is (self-published chapbook, 2016)
This Is A Clothespin (Damaged Goods Press, 2016)
Links to Sample Works
- Unfortunately, Literary Magazine, “trans people gather for a name reveal party and play Apples to Apples except all the cards are fill-in-the-blank” (Pushcart Prize nominated)
- Yes Poetry, “THE FULL BODY PROJECT” – a book-spine poem
- Stone of Madness Press, “PAGE PROMPT” (inspired by RL Stine’s “Give Yourself Goosebumps” series [1995-2000])