Writer Eglė Sakalauskaitė was born in 1985 in Vilnius. After graduating from Vilnius Lyceum, she entered the Medical faculty of at Vilnius University. In 2003, she participated in the International Olympiad of Philosophy in Buenos Aires. She wrote poetry when she was a little girl and later she became interested in prose.

She writes articles on historical and philosophical themes and in 2006, she debuted as a writer with mini-novel Žalčių karalienė (Queen of the adders, published by Versus aureus).

While writing, she disassociates herself from her chosen medical speciality. “It’s a different space – none-the-less important, non-the-less agonizing with a delightful inevitability”. (E. Sakalauskaitė).

The Human’s path to oneself is through the relationships with others; the frailty of the human being and consciousness; the stranger becoming familiar and the conveyance for the longing of meaning in literature - these are the main areas in which the writer is interested. In the book “Queen of adders” the author analyses women’s problems of the world through the mythological, emphatically romantic and the consciously idealistic world of the fairy-tale.

The authors: F. Dostojevskij, E. Levin, E. Fromm, J. Austen, B. Prus, W. Gobrowicz, H. Hesse, and V. Juknaitė greatly influenced the formation of E. Sakalauskaitė’s personality.

E. Sakalauskaitė appreciates various forms of art – she photographs, plays piano and at Vilnius University’s Medical faculty; she established an ancient music ensemble. She also enjoys the active life.