Indrė Valantinaitė (b. 1984), after graduating from a Jesuit high school, studied arts management at Vilnius University and at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Her first book came out in 2006: With Fish and Lilies. It earned her first prize in the poetry category of the 2006 First Book Contest of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union.
Her second book, On Love and Other Animals, won the Young Jotvingian Prize in 2012. Her third collection, Featurettes, appeared in 2017.
In addition to writing poems, Indrė is a singer, winner of several singing festivals, and works as a TV journalist and producer.