Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and performer. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new works by composers Colin Labadie, Benton Roark, Zachary Wadsworth, and James Rolfe, among others, as well as by DaPoPo Theatre. He frequently collaborates with singer/scholar Daniel Cabena as part of the metamorphosing ensemble ANIMA. He has played the role of medieval trans sailor Christian de Pizan in ANIMA’s Christine-de-Pizan-inspired opera Navré de ton dart, and has recorded lyrical monologues for and with the multi-disciplinary arts-collective Thirtyminutes. Hathaway’s book The Affirmations: poems (Biblioasis, 2022) was recognized in The Times, London, as a best book of the year. Graeme Richardson, the Times’ critic, writes: “Mainstream poetry counts as nonconformist compared with popular culture, but it nevertheless develops its own conformities….. Luke Hathaway, a Canadian trans poet, offers … a point of difference. Influenced by John Donne and George Herbert, and above all by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Hathaway constructs small marvels of what one poem here calls ‘loving jugglery’: a feast of transformations.” Other works for print include Years, Months, and Days (2018), All the Daylight Hours (2013), Groundwork (2011), and the chapbooks Membra Jesu Nostri (2023), New Year Letter (2020/21) and The Temple (2018). Hathaway is currently at work on the libretto for Caeneus, a new opera inspired by a transition story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses — transposed into a serviceman’s ball in Corpus Christi, Texas, circa 1941 (music by James Rolfe; ANIMA producing); as well as on new lyric text for Eurydice Fragments (an immersive VR opera with music by Benton Roark; an Arkora / re:naissance opera co-production).