Vanda Juknaitė

 Vanda Juknaitė (1949) is a Lithuanian writer, playwright, and essayist.

After studying Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University, she taught first at the Klaipeda Conservatory and, from 1975, at the University of Educational Science. She has worked in the area of social pedagogy dealing with homeless, disabled and street children.

One of her more notable works, the memoir Išsiduosi. Balsu: esė, pokalbiai, published in Lithuania in 2002 was translated into English as My Voice Betrays Me. It presents the joys and difficulties of Lithuania's transition from communism to democracy.

Another work of note is Šermenys (1990), a novel describing the mass deportations of men to Siberia leaving the women to safeguard Lithuanian society.