Enrika Striogaitė

Enrika Striogaitė (b. 1967) is a poet. She studied in the current Klaipėda University but dropped out of her studies after three and a half years, together putting and end to her professional athlete career. She acquired her BA and MA degrees in Lithuanian language and literature in the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University. Striogaitė worked as a TV host and producer and cultural journalist. She has published articles on cinema, visual arts, contemporary dance, photography, literature, and music, which appeared in the newspaper Kauno diena, the online magazine Bernardinai, and the cultural periodicals Kultūros barai and Šiaurės Atėnai. Enrika Striogaitė is the author of three books on artists and has also published three books of poetry. Her first book Lyja was published in 2004, and her second – Vienišėja – in 2005. Her most recent book Žmonės was published in 2019.