Lina ramona Vitkauskas

Lina ramona Vitkauskas

Lithuanian-American-Canadian (b. 1973). Author of SPINY RETINAS (Mutable
Sound, 2014); A Neon Tryst (Shearsman Books, 2013), HONEY IS A SHE
(Plastique Press, 2012), and THE RANGE OF YOUR AMAZING NOTHING
(Ravenna Press, 2010). In 2013, she was selected by Eleni Siklieanos for the
Henry MIller Library Ping Pong Journal award, and in 2009, Pulitzer-finalist
Brenda Hillman selected her for The Poetry Center of Chicago's Juried
Reading Award. She's been published in literary magazines such as DIAGRAM, TriQuarterly,
The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly, VLAK (Ed. Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan),
The Prague Literary Review, Van Gogh's Ear (Paris), White Fungus (Taiwan; displayed at
MoMA), and more. She is a part-time faculty member at the Chicago School of Poetics, and the
co-editor of the 12-year-running online literary magazine, milk magazine (featuring Robert
Creeley, Wanda Coleman, Ron Padgett,Michael McClure, and many others).