After she was a teacher in Lazdijai, Kaunas, and Panevėžys, her first collection of poems titled Anksti rytą (In the Early Morning), was published in 1927.

In 1928, Salomėja graduated from the university and was appointed to teach German language at the gymnasium of the Žiburys Society in Lazdijai.

While studying German in Vienna, in 1929, Salomėja met Lithuanian medical student Bronius Zubrickas and became attracted to him.

In the second collection of Salomėja's poetry, Pėdos smėly (The Footprints in the Sand), there is evidence of the onset of a profound spiritual crisis.

It was written by the chief ideological editor of Trečias frontas, Kostas Korsakas, and communist activist Valys Drazdauskas (Salomėja was more interested in writing poetry than in declarations, politics and theories about art).