Karla Gruodis is a translator, editor, and artist based in Vilnius, where she founded and edited Lithuania’s first English-language newspaper, The Lithuanian Review, in 1990. She is the editor and author of Feminist Excursus: The Concept of Woman from Antiquity to Postmodernism (1995), and was active in the post-Soviet Lithuanian women’s movement.

Her translations include Lithuanian philosopher Leonidas Donskis’ A Small Map of Experience: Aphorisms and Reflections (Guernica, 2013), Antanas Škėmas’s modernist novel White Shroud (forthcoming with Vagabond Voice in Fall 2017), Sigitas Parulskis’s Darkness and Company (forthcoming with Peter Owen Publishers) and regular contributions to the online literary journal Vilnius Review. She recently participated in the exhibition M/A\G/M\A: Body and Words in Italian and Lithuanian Women’s Art from 1965 to the Present at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius.