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.
Jurgita Jasponytė (gim. 1981) studijavo Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, įgijo lietuvių filologijos bakalauro ir literatūrologijos magistro laipsnį. Išleido du eilėraščių rinkinius: „Šaltupė“ (2014) ir „Vartai Auštrieji“ (2019). Abi knygos buvo pastebėtos ir įvertintos tiek skaitytojų, tiek kritikų – pelnė premijų, pateko į akcijos „Metų knygos rinkimai“ penketukus.
