Rasa Aškinytė has a Bachelor’s degree in History, a Master's degree in Philosophy, and she almost completed her PhD in Science of Education. She teaches at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Since 2006, she is involved in different projects of the Council of Europe Pestalozzi program (Strasbourg) in various countries - Germany, Cyprus, Kosovo, Montenegro, Norway, France, etc. She is a member of Lithuanian Writer's Union Since 2012. Her main hobbies are writing novels and letters, also finding lost or thrown away things. Rasa is the author of four novels and one book for children. Her two novels – “The Easiest” and “The Man Who Needed Nothing” are published in English. The novel "The Man Who Needed Nothing" was selected as The Best Adult Book of the Year 2014.