Luka Lesson is the current Australian Poetry Slam Champion and Co-director of The Centre for Poetics and Justice based in Melbourne.

Luka has been active in utilising hip-hop and poetry as a form of self-determination and raising awareness for marginalised young people through community development projects for many years.

He has also taught Indigenous Studies at Monash University for the past two years and holds a first class honours degree in the same field.

Luka has performed his work beside the likes of Shane Koyczan (Canada), Amir Sulaiman (USA),  Lowkey (UK) and Lemon Anderson (USA), and was invited to perform a full feature at the famous Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe in New York City in 2011.

Still only only at the beginning of his career, Luka’s roof raising performances and expert writing has built him a reputation that already spans the globe with UK performance poet Charlie Dark once describing him as “a young Saul Williams”.