Luke Allan is Editor-in-chief of Oxford Poetry. Born and raised in rural Northumberland, his poetry and non-fiction have received the Charles Causley Prize, the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Mairtín Crawford Award, and the Westerly Life Writing Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and the National Poetry Competition. His work is published in the TLS, the Literary Review, and Poetry. A chapbook, Sweet Dreams, the Sea, was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2024, introduced by Ishion Hutchinson. He studied creative writing at UEA and Oxford, and book arts at the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow. He is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, researching poetry and typography.