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Lucas Scheelk

Birth Year
b. 1988
Current City
Washington, Pacific Northwest, USA (Turtle Island)
Birth City
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Turtle Island)
Genre(s)
Poetry
Author Reading
Image description: Selfie of Lucas Scheelk, a white Jew, wearing a purple long-sleeve shirt with a matching purple mask, posing for the camera against a display of fake black roses.
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Lucas Scheelk

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

Subject Matter

Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Cultural Identity, Death, Grief & Elegy, Jewishness, Trauma, LGBTQ+, Pop Culture, Mental Illness, Disability.