The Snake in the Vodka Bottle: Life Stories from Post-Soviet Lithuania Twenty Years after the Collapse of Communism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781475056969)

Laima Vince (Sruoginis) is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, which enabled her to travel around Lithuania's provinces and cities collecting oral histories of resistance fighters, Holocaust survivors, exiles, victims of human trafficking, and war refugees. Laima has additionally received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in Literature and a PEN Translation Fund grant. She has an accomplished career in education spanning two decades, and is a published writer and playwright with professional literary ties in Europe, Hong Kong, and the United States. Laima is an award-winning literary translator who has translated and published two collections of poetry, five works of literary nonfiction, and two plays, in addition to writing numerous essays, articles, stories, poems, and academic papers. Laima holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts in New York, and in 2014 earned a Master of Fine Arts in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire. Laima previously served as the faculty director of the Stonecoast Summer Writers' Conference, and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, where she teachers creative writing.