Ramunė Brundzaitė – Next Stop: Red Cross

Ramunė Brundzaitė (b. 1988, Vilnius) graduated from Vilnius University with a BA in Lithuanian philology and Italian language and an MA in intermedial literary studies. She won the Lithuanian Writers’ Union First Book contest in 2013, publishing her first collection of poetry Drugy, mano drauge (Monarch, My Friend), which also earned her the Young Yotvingian Award and the Vilnius Mayor’s Award for poetry about Vilnius. Brundzaitė published her second book of poetry in 2022, titled Tuščių butelių draugija (The Society of Empty Bottles), named by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore as the most creative book of the year. Her poetry has been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian, and other languages. She also publishes some of her work in cultural magazines and translates from Italian. Brundzaitė did an internship at the Joyce Museum in Trieste during 2015–2016.