Luka Lutsiv was a Ukrainian literary scholar, critic, educator, and a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was born in the village of Hrushiv,today Drohobych raion, L'viv oblast, Ukraine in 1895 and died in 1984 in Philadelphia. He studied in Prague at the Ukrainian Free University (1921-1926) and at the Charles University with a Ph.D. dissertation on Taras Shevchenko (1926). From 1927 to 1944 he worked as a teacher in Galicia. As a postwar refugee he taught in displaced persons camps in Bavaria before settling in New York City in 1949. From 1952 to 1970 he worked as an editor for the daily newspaper Svoboda. He published literary articles and hundreds of book reviews in Galician and émigré periodicals and scholarly serials and wrote books on the writers M. Shashkevych (1963), O. Kobylians’ka (1963), T. Shevchenko (1964), I. Franko (1967), and V. Stefanyk (1971). He also edited two books of articles on Drohobych region (1973, 1978). A selection of his articles and reviews from 1925 with a bibliography and autobiography appeared in 1982 as Literatura i Zhyttia (Literature and Life).