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Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

Born: in Portsmouth, Va
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Vitkauskas was raised in Chicago.

Biography: Lina Ramona Vitkauskas is a Lithuanian-American poet and (past) short fiction writer. In 2009, she was the recipient of The Poetry Center of Chicago’s 15th Annual Juried Reading award, judged by Brenda Hillman, and was nominated by Another Chicago Magazine for an Illinois Arts Council Award (in both poetry and fiction categories).

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Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: https://linaramona.com/
Website: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/lina_ramona_vitkauskas

Selected Titles

A neon tryst /
ISBN: 1848612362 OCLC: 820784967
Professional Poetry /
ISBN: 1304593177 OCLC: 878702167
Shooting dead films with poets /
ISBN: 1933126000 OCLC: 933282801
Spiny Retinas
ISBN: 0989683818 OCLC:

The range of your amazing nothing /
ISBN: 0982211562 OCLC: 555660811
WHITE STOCKINGS.
ISBN: 1794812210 OCLC: 1135575484

 

 

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