Nasim

Luczaj

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), the winner of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry, and an editor of the poetry magazine Wet Grain, engaged with land use, ownership and provenance. Her poems can be found in journals including Granta, Wasafiri, Oxford Poetry and many others.

In 2025, she completed a Poetry London Apprenticeship with Pascale Petit and was poet-in-residence in the home of Wisława Szymborska, thanks to the Wisława Szymborska Foundation and Jerzy Peterkiewicz Foundation. She is the recipient of an Awarded Residency at Cove Park.

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 2025, she was the Polish Book Institute's translator-in-residence, a panelist at London Book Fair and a reader for PEN America as part of Women In Translation Month.

A new pamphlet, Ultraviolet with Landing Marks, is forthcoming from Oblique House in 2026.

She is represented by Esme Bright at David Higham Associates.

Email: nasimluczaj [at] gmail [dot] com