Lienīte Medne-Spāre (1956-2023) was a writer and editor.

She studied French Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Latvia.

Lienīte Medne-Spāre has worked as the editor-in-chief of the publishing house “Artava”. Together with authors Vladis Spāre and Juris Zvirgzdiņš has published the novel Odu laiks [The time of Odes].

Her collection of stories Dziedošās smiltis [Singing Sand] was shortlisted for the Annual Latvian Literature Award 2020.

Short stories by Lienīte Medne-Spāre have been published in the magazines “Liesma”, “Avots”, “Latvju Teksti”, “Jaunā Gaita” and in the literary newspaper “konTEKSTS”.