Creative Nonfiction means true stories told with artistry and care.

Creative Nonfiction includes memoir, on the personal side, and literary journalism, on the public side. Luke teaches Creative Nonfiction as a component of many writing courses at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and as a graduate course at Spalding University. His own work in this genre encompasses nature writing which reflects family stories and adventures, and essays which explore his conservation work.

On Father's Day, 2004, Seal Press published FAR FROM HOME: FATHER/DAUGHTER TRAVEL ADVENTURE STORIES, edited by Wendy Knight. This book includes Luke's piece "Sharing Sacred Ground," about taking his daughter Eva to his family's woods in Mississippi.

Luke's essay "River of Silence," was first published in BAILE '98, Journal of the Geographic Society at University College Dublin, where Luke taught as a Fulbright Fellow in '97. It reports on an adventure he had as part of a Regional Planning team working to protect the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. The story is reprinted in HIGH HORSE!, Fleur de Lis Press, Fall 2004, an anthology of work by the faculty of the Spalding MFA in Writing Program.

This new anthology from Fleur de Lis Press contains three pieces by Luke.

The fall 2005 issue of The Louisville Review contains Luke's creative nonfiction essay "Intimate Dusk."