A native of Utah County, Luke Swenson is co-founder and librettist for the Deseret Experimental Opera Company. His first first full length opera, A Parking Lot for Hyacinths, received a grant from the BYU School of Music and premiered at the Nelke Experimental Theater. Swenson is the author of the self-published chapbook Proportion and Ornament and his poems have been published in the journals Inscape, Lost Sparrow Press and Likewise Folio and are forthcoming in the journal Porcupine.