Laima Vincė Sruoginis 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, a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She has been awarded two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts in Literature, the PEN Translation prize, among other honors. Laima Vincė writes in both English and Lithuanian and has published over thirty books in the genres of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and literary translation in the United States, United Kingdom, and in Europe. Her academic monograph, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature (2023) was published as part of the Exile Studies series by Peter Lang International Publishers. Her new book, Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with North American Lithuanian Diaspora Writers is forthcoming with Peter Lang International Publishers in 2025. Currently she is a post-doctoral researcher at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

At Cove Park, Laima Vince will be working on her novel, That Unspoken Word about the Lithuanian Jewish poet Matilda Olkinaite, who was killed in the Holocaust.