Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. His formal apprenticeship includes intensive personal direction from writers such as Canada’s Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA’s Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England’s D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry), and includes studies at The University of British Columbia (The Creative Writing Department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer’s Digest School (novel writing program).
He and his wife have four daughters. He teaches English, guitar, and creative writing at award-winning McNaughton Centre (Quesnel, BC), a school for troubled teenagers. Since 1978, he has edited a literary journal, CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and, since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, a scholarly, peer-reviewed forum of research, practise, and theory. Through Island Scholastic Press, he has published 55 poetry collections, some by well-established poets such as George Swede (Canada), Paul Gotro (Canada), Elana Wolff (Canada), Bill Caughlan (Canada), Dimitar Anakiev (Slovenia), Neal Leadbeater (Scotland), Robert Lavett Smith (USA), Simon Perchik (USA), Michael J. Vaughn (USA), Esther Cameron (USA), Michael Zack (USA), Richard Luftig (USA), Luis Benitez (Argentina), and Coral Hull (Australia).
He serves as an elder in a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Quesnel, where he teaches public speaking. Hobbies include longboarding, searching for haiku moments, studying mathematics, and hybrid biking.
