Nasim Łuczaj

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She is a translator, prize-winning poet, and co-editor of Wet Grain magazine. She is a winner of the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the author of Hind Mouth (Earthbound Press) and Ultraviolet with Landing Marks (Oblique House). Her debut poetry collection, Tang, is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2027.

Łuczaj is an alumna of NCW’s Emerging Translator Mentorship; a graduate, with distinction, of the Creative and Life Writing MA at Goldsmiths, University of London; and holds a first-class degree in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Glasgow. She has read for PEN America as part of Women in Translation Month, been a panellist at London Book Fair and Miłosz Festival, and held residencies at the Polish Book Institute, the Wisława Szymborska Foundation and Cove Park.

Translations

Decompression. Krystyna Lenkowska, Fraza (2026)
Poems by Justyna Bargielska, Aleksandra Górecka, Joanna Mueller, Krzysztof Siwczyk and Julia Szychowiak, „biBLioteka” (2025)
West Farragut Avenue Agnieszka Jelonek, „Asymptote” (2025)
„The Enemy”, Wróg. Łukasz Orbitowski (excerpt), „New Books from Poland”, Instytut Książki (2025)
„Snake Charming on Hot Evenings”, Zaklinanie węży w gorące wieczory. Małgorzata Żarów (excerpt), „La Piccioletta Barca” (2024)
„Translation Tuesday: An Excerpt from West Farragut Avenue”, (excerpt)West Farragut Avenue. Agnieszka Jelonek, „New Books from Poland”, Instytut Książki (2024)
Poems by Irena Wiszniewska and Łukasz Kaźmierczak / Łucja Kuttig, „Atlanta Review” (2023)
Essay „Haften” by Łukasz Kaźmierczak / Łucja Kuttig, exhibition catalogue Haften Bartosza Jakubowskiego (2022)
On the Wild Side: From the Anthropology of Hunter-gatherers to Postmodern Foraging, Bushcraft and New-Age Nature Seekers (W dziką stronę). Łukasz Łuczaj, self-published (2020)