Tom Lowenstein (born 1941)[1] is an English poet, ethnographer, teacher, cultural historian and translator.
He went to Leighton Park School, then studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the University of Leicester.
In 1973 he worked for the Alaska State Museum, and went on to live on and off (between 1975 and 1988) in the Alaskan village of Point Hope, recording and translating the local history and legends.
[4] Other awards for his research have come from Northwestern University, the Nuffield Foundation, the Society of Authors, the British Academy, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Leverhulme Trust, the Arctic Institute of North America, The American Philosophical Society, Alaska Humanities Forum, and North Slope Borough, Alaska.
[2] Lowenstein has also written texts for music collaborations, including with the composer Ed Hughes Sun, Moon and Women Shouting (1999)[5] and The Sybil of Cumae (2001),[6] and the libretto for Rachel Stott's oratorio Companion of Angels on the lives of William Blake and Catherine Blake.