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Storytellers
Five writers in five cities, each with a Lithuanian thread of their own.
Ieva Strazdas
Ieva grew up in the Chicago suburbs, spent twelve years of Saturdays at a Lithuanian school and now teaches her own two children the language at the kitchen table. She writes about language, learning and bilingual family life.
3 articles
Linas Margevicius
Linas lives in Toronto and has spent many winters in parish basements and reading rooms leafing through emigrant newspapers. He writes about diaspora history, archives and the press.
2 articles
Egle Matulis
Egle lives in Melbourne, sings in a folk ensemble and cooks for more Christmas Eve tables than she can count. She writes about traditions, food, song and craft.
3 articles
Mantas Kelmelis
Mantas moved from Kaunas to Dublin in his twenties and has since helped friends and relatives through more passport, birth record and residence paperwork than he would like. He writes about citizenship, documents and moving between countries.
2 articles
Agne Corrigan
Agne grew up in Klaipeda and has lived in Manchester for fifteen years, where she helps out at a weekend school and with community events. She writes about community life, travel and raising children between two cultures.
3 articles