Erika Drungytė was born in 1971 in Kaunas. She moved to Klaipėda in 1989 to study Lithuanian philology and theater. She moved back to Kaunas in 1995 and received a doctorate in the humanities from Vytautas Magnus University in 2002. Since 2016, she has been the editor-in-chief of the monthly cultural publication Nemunas. Erika Drungytė is the author of five poetry books; her most recent collection of verse titled Mountain and City was published in 2021. Drungytė translates poetry and prose from Latvian, Polish, Russian, and English. She currently lives in the Kaunas District, where she devotes much of her time to gardening.