Nasim
Luczaj
is a poet and Polish-English translator based between London, Glasgow and rural Poland. She was raised in the Polish Carpathians as a bilingual speaker, writer and reader.
She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Poetry Series). Her poems, translations and reviews have been widely published online and in print. She is the winner of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry, and currently undertaking a Poetry London Apprenticeship with Pascale Petit. In October 2025, she will be poet-in-residence in the flat of Wisława Szymborska in Kraków, thanks to the Wisława Szymborska Foundation and Jerzy Peterkiewicz Foundation.
Her translation experience spans literary fiction, poetry, children's literature, transcreation projects, scientific papers, cookbooks, film scripts and product descriptions. She was the 2024 mentee for Polish in the NCW Emerging Translator Mentorship in literary translation. In November 2025, she will be translator-in-residence in the flat of Tadeusz Konwicki in Warsaw, thanks to the Polish Book Institute.