Daiva Molytė-Lukauskienė

Poet, writer, painter. Since 2007 member of the Lithuanian Writers Union, born in 1967 in Naujuosiai Valkininkai, Varėna district. In 1985 graduated from Varėna 2nd Secondary School. Later – Kaunas S. Žuko Applied Art Technical College, specialisation in artistic decoration. She worked as an artist at the Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum in Kaunas. In 1993-1998 she studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Klaipėda Department of Visual Design, Visual Communication Design, and in 2001 she graduated  the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Klaipėda Master’s degree programme in Visual Design, where she wrote her MA thesis “Graphic Expression of Poetry (Synthesis of Words and Images)”. She has held several exhibitions of his paintings and participated in joint projects of artists and poets. Worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper “Klaipėda”. Member of the Board of the Klaipėda branch of the Lithuanian Writers Union (2012-2015).