Vytenė Muschick was born in Vilnius and has been living in Berlin since 1995. She studied Lithuanian and Scandinavian Philology in Vilnius, Uppsala and Reykjavik and received her M.A. in German Language and Literature from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

She has translated the fiction of Henning Mankell, Karin Alvtegen and Camilla Läckberg from Swedish into Lithuanian, and also translated the memoirs of Dalia Grinkevičiūtė, the poems of Giedrė Kazlauskaitė, and an essay by Mindaugas Kvietkauskas from Lithuanian into German.