Sébastien Luc Butler was born and raised in Michigan. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow in poetry, and served as poetry editor for Meridian. The recipient of the Patricia Cleary Award for Poetry and the Hopwood Award for Poetry, Sébastien has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Levis Book Prize, and the Black Warrior Review Contest. He was also longlisted for the Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry by Adroit. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, Southeast Review, the minnesota review, Four Way Review, Post Road Magazine, Cream City Review, and Southern Indiana Review, among others. He currently serves as an assistant editor at West Trade Review, and lives in New York City. His chapbook, Sky Tongued Back With Light won the Spring 2024 Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in 2026.