Author Maxim Loskutoff

Maxim Loskutoff is the award-winning author of books, stories, and essays about the contemporary West. His debut collection of stories Come West and See won the High Plains Book Award, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an NPR and Amazon Best Book of the Year. “A new kind of American western.” (NPR). His debut novel Ruthie Fear won the Montana Innovation Award and the High Plains Book Award, received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and Booklist, and was a Reading the West Award Finalist. “Astonishing…a magnificent novel.” (Bookreporter). His second novel Old King was named a Best Book of Summer by the Boston Globe and Minneapolis Star Tribune, and a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Publisher’s Weekly. “Loskutoff is unmatched at evoking the contentious, transitional nature of the American West.” (Wall Street Journal). A former Visiting Writer at the University of Montana and the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ploughshares, GQ, and many other magazines. He lives in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana where he was raised. He is a Peyton Evans Artist in Residence at The Studios of Key West.