She was editor and co-translator with Miyuki Aoyama and Akemi Tomioka of the groundbreaking anthology: A Long Rainy Season: Contemporary Japanese Women’s Poetry (1994), which introduced Western readers to the haiku and tanka (waka) of Fumi Saito, Yuko Kawano, Machi Tawara, Akitsu Ei and thirteen others.
A companion volume, Other Side River: Free Verse (1995) featured contemporary Japanese women free-verse poets in translation.
The two volumes, A Long Rainy Season and Other Side River, reflect a variety of literary styles and present an astonishing political and social awareness of women in a still male-centered society.
In 1993, she collaborated with the shakuhachi master Christopher Yohmei Blasdel on a series of readings and musical performances from these anthologies throughout Northern California.
In 2001, she edited Manoa: Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War, which contained essays by Donald Richie and Ishii Shinpei, last letters of kamikaze pilots (first-time in translation), testimonials from Taiwanese comfort women, voices of student nurses from Okinawa ordered to commit suicide, and war-related fiction and essays by Mishima Yukio, Hayashi Kyoko, Dazai Osamu, Kijima Hajime and Yōko Ogawa.
The book also contains manga from Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa (translated by Frederik Schodt et al.), poetry by Tamura Ryuichi, Ayukawa Nobuo, Ko Un, Sagawa Aki, Ishigaki Choko, and war-related fiction by Mary Yukari Waters and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
She and Reema Datta later co-authored Sacred Sanskrit Words for Yoga, Chant, and Meditation for Stone Bridge Press.
Lowitz's work has appeared in hundreds of literary journals including The Huffington Post, Shambhala Sun, The New York Times online, Yoga Journal, Best Buddhist Writing of 2011, Harpers, ZYZZYVA, Prairie Schooner, Wingspan (All Nippon Airways in-flight magazine) and anthologies such as Language for A New Century (W.W. Norton), The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry (Copper Canyon Press), Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories, My Postwar Life (Chicago Quarterly Review), Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, The Broken Bridge, An Inn Near Kyoto and RUNES.
She is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/who_we_are.