Daiva Čepauskaitė is a poet and playwright. She studied medicine and later stagecraft in Kaunas, yet never worked as a medic. Since 1990, she works

Uladzimir Arloŭ studied History in Minsk and worked as a teacher, as a journalist and, from 1988 onwards, as a publishing house reader, until he was dismissed for political reasons in 1997.

Vladas Braziūnas grew up in in Pasvalys in Northern Lithuania, and studied Journalism and Philology in Vilnius. He contributed to many cultural and literary publications and was editor in chief of the weekly newspaper Literatūra ir menas

Tadeusz Dąbrowski is a poet, essayist, critic and editor of the literary magazine “Topos”. He published five volumes of poetry

Gintaras Grajauskas studied Jazz at the State Academy of Music in Klaipėda. He worked as a journalist at radio- and TV stations, and works for the daily newspaper Klaipėda since 1994.

Andrey Khadanovich (1973, Minsk) – Belarusan poet, translator, author of essays. An author of fouth books of poems (Staryja viershy, 2003; Listy z-pad koudry, 2004; Belarusan Limericks, 2005; From Belarus with love, 2005).

Ilma Rakusa, born in 1946 in the Rimvaska Sobota (Czechoslovakia), lives and works in Zurich. Her father is Slovenian, her mother of Hungarian origin. She grew up in Budapest, Ljubljana, Trieste and Zurich.

Agnė Žagrakalytė is a poet, prose writer, and publicist. She studied Lithuanian Language and Literature at the Educational University in Vilnius and worked as an editor of youth columns