Lucas Scheelk

Poet

Bremerton, WA
Washington US
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Author's Bio

Lucas Scheelk (they/them) is an autistic queer white Jew. They’re a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, and a degree-less college-dropout. If you’re a Halachic Daydream, a collector of Special Interest Badges, love literary mashups, or in search of prayers inside pomegranate seeds, Scheelk’s poetry may be for you! You can find their work in Taco Bell QuarterlyAutonomous PressQDA: A Queer Disability AnthologyPandemic PublicationsRejection Lettersscissors & spacklequeerlingsMollyhouseStone of Madness Press, and the Bare (one’s) Breast Postcard Project, among others.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
A Prayer For A Non-Religious Autistic (Mason Jar Press, 2022)
Prizes won: 

VSA MN Emerging Artist 2016 ($2,000 grant for Minnesotan disabled artists/artists with disabilities, awarded with funds from the Jerome Foundation; VSA MN closed in 2019)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Diane R. Wiener, Rubin Hardin, Kai Minosh Pyle, torrin a. greathouse, sam sax, Elana Lev Friedland, SG Huerta, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Bogi Takács, Ezra Rose, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Kay Ulanday Barrett, and Alice Wong (among many many others)
What I'm reading now: 
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Disabled, Jewish, LGBTQ
Born in: 
Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota
Raised in: 
Saint Paul, MN
Minnesota
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Last update: Dec 27, 2022