Laima Vince 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, and a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. Her academic monograph, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian Diaspora Literature (2023), was also published in the Exile Studies series from Peter Lang. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.