Victor Lodato is a playwright and the author of three novels: Honey, Edgar and Lucy, and Mathilda Savitch, winner of the PEN Center USA Award for fiction. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His stories and essays regularly appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. Born and raised in New Jersey, he now lives in Ashland, OR.
At MacDowell in 2023, Lodato completed the final edits for his novel Honey. He also worked on a new novel, tentatively titled Mountain Mountain – he finished a draft of this novel during his 2025 residency.
