Burning Ground made it possible for Luke to travel to Accra, Ghana, for the Commonwealth Prize ceremonies. She also accepted an invitation to Taiwan, where she spent three weeks as writer-in-residence for the city of Taipei.
She taught literature and writing at DeVry Institute of Technology in Calgary from 1997 to 2001, and currently teaches Advanced Composition for DeVry University Online. Luke also mentors beginning and intermediate writers online, privately from this site, and through the University of British Columbia program Booming Ground (http://bg.arts.ubc.ca/faculty/luke.html).
These days Luke makes her home on Salt Spring Island. “I’ve wanted to live in B.C. since I first laid eyes on it at the age of fourteen,” she says. “Now I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I feel as though I have some genetic connection with the rock, moss, water, trees. My father grew up in B.C., and lives here still, so maybe I do.”
She lives with her partner, poet and novelist Robert Hilles. To compensate for the sedentary nature of the writing process, she gardens, walks, cycles, swims and occasionally kayaks. Luke is at work on her third novel.
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