Erika Drungytė is a poet, literary critic and a translator. She studied philology at Klaipeda University and received  her PhD in Humanities. She has worked as a lecturer of the history of Lithuanian literature at the University of Latvia. She is currently editor in chief of the literature and culture magazine "Nemunas".

Her poetry was first published in 1992; she was later awarded a national literature prize for best debut. Her latest collection of poems came out in 2015.

She has translated several Latvian poets and Māra Zālīte’s latest novel "Five Fingers" (Penki pirštai) into Lithuanian.