Luke Lewin Davies is an academic, writer, and theatre director. 

His main academic research interest is productivism and its cultural manifestations in late modern British culture. His monograph The Tramp in British Literature, a study of anti-productivist tramp writing, was recently shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize.

His non-academic writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, Literary Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His creative writing has been shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize Anthology, the MPT Short Story Prize, and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Letter Review Short Story Prize.

Plays he has directed have toured to Adelaide, Berlin, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris, and to venues across the UK, including the King’s Head Theatre, Theatre 503, Greenwich Theatre, and Southwark Playhouse. His productions have been nominated for an Off West End Award, an Off Fest Award, and a Poz Award.

He is currently a Lecturer in Film Studies at Keele University.