Gregory Luce

Gregory Luce was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in Texas, Kentucky and Oklahoma. He holds a BA and MA from Oklahoma State University and did additional graduate work at the University of Southern Mississippi. He lives in Arlington, VA.

Gregory Luce is the author of Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, Tile, and Riffs & Improvisations. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press), Written in Arlington (Paycock Press), and

This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers Publishing House).

In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition to poetry, he writes a monthly column for the online art journal Scene4.

PRAISE FOR LUCE’S POETRY
On DRINKING WEATHER : “...The poems in Greg Luce’s Drinking Weather look squarely and wisely at the wounds, the red wine stains of human experience...” ~Moira Egan, author of Cleave, Bar Napkin Sonnets, and Spin

“The poems radiate like heat lightning in a distant sky.” ~Dean Smith, author of American Boy

On RIFFS & INSPIRATIONS: “Luce’s carefully crafted poems are as elegant as the songs which they so deftly capture.” ~Nathan Leslie,

On TILE “To read the beautiful poems in Gregory Luce’s Tile, one must listen closely. Spare yet intimate, they are filled with whispers, breaths, and breezes. But don’t be deceived, beneath these sounds other worlds exist...” ~Jane Shapiro, author of Mrs. Cave’s House and Tapping This Stone