Mindaugas Kvietkauskas was born in 1976 in Panevezys, Lithuania. Kvietkauskas studied Lithuanian literature at Vilnius University and the Cultural History of Middle and Eastern Europe at the universities of Warsaw and Cracow and is currently working on postgraduate studies at Vilnius University (comparative studies of Lithuanian, Polish, Belarus and Yiddish literature). His first book of poetry “Rabi” was published in 1998. He is also a literary critic and an essayist and an editor of the Lithuanian literary monthly “Metai.” He is represented by an article in the Commentary on Lithuanian poetry.
Renata Šerelytė (g. 1970) – prozininkė, poetė, dramaturgė, kritikė, žurnalistė. 1988 m. baigė Šimonių vidurinę mokyklą, metus dirbo mokyklos bibliotekoje. 1994 m. Vilniaus universitete baigė lietuvių kalbos ir literatūros studijas. Dirbo vaikų žurnale „Žvaigždutė“, kultūros savaitraštyje „7 meno dienos“, žurnale „Jaunimo gretos“. Šiuo metu bendradarbiauja „Šiaurės Atėnuose“, internetiniuose dienraščiuose. R. Šerelytė debiutavo 1986 m. žurnale „Moksleivis“. Pirmasis novelių rinkinys – „Žuvies darinėjimas“ (1995). Išleido novelių rinkinius „Balandų ratas“ (1997), „O ji tepasakė miau“ (2001), romanus „Ledynmečio žvaigždės“ (1999), „Vardas tamsoje“ (2004), du nuotykinių istorinių apysakų rinkinius vaikams, eilėraščių rinkinį vaikams, esė rinkin
Vytautas Mačernis was a Lithuanian poet existentialist. Mačernis studied English language and literature in Kaunas and philosophy at the University of Vilnius. The poet had died on October 7, 1944 in Žemaičių Kalvarija hit by a stray bullet. Mačernis dedicated his short life for searching the purpose of human's life. The first poem of Vytautas was published in 1936, the last one – in October 1944. He had been writing sonnets, visions, triolets, songs and short aphoristic poems. Since he was a sensitive person, Mačernis was affected by such disasters as World War II, the Soviet and Nazi occupations. His poems became full of blackness, dark colours.
Antanas Sileika (Antanas Šileika) is a Canadian novelist and critic of Lithuanian-born parents.
After completing an English degree at the University of Toronto, he moved to Paris for two years and there married his wife, Snaige Sileika (née Valiunas), an art student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. While in Paris, he studied French, taught English in Versailles, and worked as part of the editorial collective of the expatriate literary journal, Paris Voices, run from the upstairs room of the bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.
Upon his return to Canada in 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian literary journal, Descant, where he remained until 1988.
