Luke Hathaway is an internationally-acclaimed poet, lyricist/librettist, and theatre-maker. He is a founding and core member of ANIMA and of the Fractal Arts Collective. 

Of Hathaway’s 2022 book The Affirmations, Times critic Graeme Richardson writes: ‘Mainstream poetry counts as nonconformist compared with popular culture, but it nevertheless develops its own conformities….. Luke Hathaway, a Canadian trans poet, offers … a point of difference. Influenced by John Donne and George Herbert, and above all by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Hathaway constructs small marvels of what one poem here calls “loving jugglery”: a feast of transformations.’ 

Hathaway is co-creator of the immersive opera Eurydice Fragments (re:naissance opera, 2024), the song-cycle The Sign of Jonas (Milltown Records, 2024), and the 15th c. transition story Navré de ton dart (ANIMA, 2022). 

He teaches English and creative writing at Saint Mary’s University.