LAIMA VINCE

Transforming Trauma Through Writing

Our workshop had given them permission to feel their emotions again.

Laima Vince is a poet, literary translator, writer of both works of nonfiction and novels, playwright, artist, academic and educator. She has published over twenty books in the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe. She earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing with a concentration in Poetry from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, and a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in Literature, a PEN Translation Fund grant, an Academy of American Poets Honorary Mention in Poetry, an Association of the Advancement of Baltic Studies book subvention grant and dissertation grant, among other honors. Vanished Lands, her academic monograph on intergenerational trauma and postmemory in Lithuanian diaspora literature, is forthcoming this autumn with Peter Lang Publishers.