2026 State of the Art Prize, Montana
2026 State of the Art Prize, Montana
Maxim Loskutoff
Maxim Loskutoff
Maxim Loskutoff is the award-winning author of the novels Old King and Ruthie Fear and the short story collection “Come West and See.”
Literary Fiction, Literature
2026
About Maxim Loskutoff
Missoula, MT
Maxim Loskutoff is a novelist and short story writer from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. His debut collection Come West and See was hailed as a “new kind of American Western” by NPR and won the High Plains Book Award. His debut novel Ruthie Fear won the Montana Innovation Award and was a Reading the West Award finalist. His second novel Old King was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Publisher’s Weekly, and lauded as “unmatched at evoking the contentious, transitional nature of the American West” by the Wall Street Journal. The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Art Omi, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ploughshares, and GQ, among many other magazines, and been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Maxim Loskutoff is a novelist and short story writer from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. His debut collection Come West and See was hailed as a “new kind of American Western” by NPR and won the High Plains Book Award. His debut novel Ruthie Fear won the Montana Innovation Award and was a Reading the West Award finalist. His second novel Old King was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Publisher’s Weekly, and lauded as “unmatched at evoking the contentious, transitional nature of the American West” by the Wall Street Journal. The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Art Omi, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ploughshares, and GQ, among many other magazines, and been translated into more than a dozen languages.