  We propose a novel mechanism of SUSY breaking by coupling a Lorentz-invariant
supersymmetric matter sector to non-supersymmetric gravitational interactions
with Lifshitz scaling. The improved UV properties of Lifshitz propagators
moderate the otherwise uncontrollable ultraviolet divergences induced by
gravitational loops. This ensures that both the amount of induced Lorentz
violation and SUSY breaking in the matter sector are controlled by
Lambda_HL^2/M_P^2, the ratio of the Horava-Lifshitz cross-over scale Lambda_HL
to the Planck scale M_P. This ratio can be kept very small, providing a novel
way of explicitly breaking supersymmetry without reintroducing fine-tuning. We
illustrate our idea by considering a model of scalar gravity with
Horava-Lifshitz scaling coupled to a supersymmetric Wess-Zumino matter sector,
in which we compute the two-loop SUSY breaking corrections to the masses of the
light scalars due to the gravitational interactions and the heavy fields.
