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Laima Vincė writes in the genres of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Over the past few decades, writing under the name, Laima Vincė, she has published over twenty books in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom. She is also well known as a literary translator from Lithuanian into English and has published an anthology of contemporary Lithuanian poetry (Raw Amber, Poetry Salzburg), two collections of poetry in English translation by Lithuanian National Poet, Marcelijus Martinaitis (The Ballads of Kukutis, published by Arc Publications and K. B., The Suspect, published by White Pines Press). She has also researched the life of Matilda Olkinaitė, a Lithuanian Jewish poet killed in the Holocaust, and translated her diary and poetry into English.
Laima Vince Sruoginis (full name) has earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, and a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in Literature, a PEN Translation Fund grant, an Academy of American Poets Award in Poetry, an Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies dissertation grant, among other honors. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Southern Maine.