[5] His next work was a narrative memoir for readers aged 9–13, Somewhere There is Still a Sun, co-written with Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum, and published in 2015.
Hasak-Lowy was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in its suburbs by his father, Ron Lowy, an architect, and his mother, Suzanne Levin.
It was reviewed positively by Richard Eder in the New York Times, who described the author's "explosive originality: a mix of zany wit, reverse-spin writing and enlarged purpose.
"[9] Hasak-Lowy published his first novel, Captives, in 2008, and a book-length academic study, Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Hebrew Fiction.
[10] Hasak-Lowy describes a growing tension between his academic work and creative writing, which—along with other reasons—resulted in his family relocating to Evanston, Illinois in 2010.
[7] He began to teach literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago[7] and expanded his writing to include works for children and young adults.
Hasak-Lowy describes the creative spark that led him to write occurring early in graduate school, while studying narrative and reading a comic book in the spirit of R. Crumb or Harvey Pekar.
[7] He cites two novels, Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous,[7] as the catalyst for the forming of his creative voice.