Greta Ambrazaitė (b. 1993) – Lithuanian poetess, book editor, musician, translator and co-founder of poetry publishing house "Bazilisko ambasada". She studied Philology and holds an MA in Literary Anthropology and Culture from Vilnius University.

Ambrazaitė's debut poetry collection FRAGILE THINGS („Trapūs daiktai“, 2018) was met with success – generously reviewed by critics and readers, it earned the Young Yotvingian Prize as a best young poet‘s book and was also announced as the Poetry Book of the Year 2018. Also, she was awarded the Young Artistˈs Prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.

Ambrazaitėˈs poems were translated into 12 foreign languages. She translated into Lithuanian poems by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Alejandra Pizarnik and others. Also, she compiled the bilingual anthology of young Georgian poets – ექო („Aidintys“, co-translated with Dominykas Norkūnas) that was published in Lithuania in 2021.

Her lo-fi/electronic digital album BLOOD MOUSE („kraujo pelytė“) was released in 2019. The second volume of poetry ADELA appeared in 2022. 

grand piano

my head is too big for your doors,

my head is just an endless attempt to find my home,

I could give everything up for kitchen warmth,

I don’t need everything, just to throw some things out,

my head is too big for your doors,

my head is on the doormat

and it always ends the same,

my head is a heavy grand piano

which you casually play while passing,

leaving the lid wide open

Translated from Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris