Born in Peace River, Alberta, Luke attended University of Calgary and earned first a BA and then an MA in English Literature.
Luke lived in Alberta until 2001, and was active in the literary community, especially in Calgary, where she was an editor-at-large for Dandelion Magazine and worked for book publishers Detselig Enterprises and Thomson/Carswell.
In her award-winning first novel, Burning Ground, Luke writes a love story about a character working in a fire lookout in northern Alberta.
Her second novel, Madame Zee is a fictional account of the life of Mabel Rowbotham, mistress to the infamous Brother Twelve and his 1920s British Columbia cult of "gold, sex, and black magic", as written about by non-fiction author John Oliphant.
[2] Madame Zee was a long-list nominee for the International Dublin Literary Award and was selected as a book of the month pick by both Chatelaine and Canadian Living.