Birutė Marcinkevičiūtė (pseudonym: Birutė Mar) – poetess, prose writer.
She was born 23 March, 1969 in Kaunas.
She studied at Juozas Naujelis art school and in 1993 she finished her studies at St. Petersburg Theater Academy. She had an internship at R. Fon Laban Dance Center in London in 1993 and in 1999 in International Theater school in Denmark. In 1997-1998 she studied traditional Japanese dance in Tokyo. She also had internship in Greece, Cyprus. She is an actress in National Drama Theater since 1994.
A member of Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 2000.

B i b l i o g r a p h y :
Neišsiųsti laiškai: poetry. – Vilnius: Vilniaus pedagoginio universiteto leidykla, 1995.
Kokoro: Japanese flashes: essays. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1999.
Solo: poems. – Vilnius: Strofa, 2001.
Cinamonu kvepiantys namai: (from Eastern diary). – Vilnius: Kronta, 2007.
Marija ir Pūkelis: novella. – Vilnius: Dominicus Lituanus, 2009.
Princesių sala: tale. – Vilnius: Kronta, 2011.
Gėlininkė: novella. – Vilnius: Labdaros ir paramos fondas „Švieskime vaikus“, 2014.

A w a r d s :
1996, 1997 Laureate of Balys Sruoga and Baroque literature reading competitions.
1998–2000 Awards for mono-play “Žodžiai smėlyje” in international festivals in Germany, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Minsk.
2000 Reader in Poetry Spring festival.
2014 Valerijus Chazanovas prize in international Fujairah festival of mono-plays.