Born on 24 September 1960 in Kaunas.
Since 1964 lives in Vilnius. Graduated from the 22nd Secondary School in Vilnius (now Mikalojaus Daukšos), then studied for some time at the Vilnius Conservatoire. In his youth, he has worked in a variety of jobs, from lighting in theatres, as a carpenter in a botanical garden, as a book packer, and as an attendant on freight trains transporting cows to Asia. He has contributed to periodicals as a literary reviewer. He has published many essays and critical articles on various authors and phenomena of Lithuanian literature in the monthly "Metai", the weeklies "Literatūra ir menas" and "Ziemeļ Atėnai". He revived the sonnet genre in Lithuanian poetry. He made his debut in 1985 with the publication of poems in the magazine "Pergalė" (now "Metai"). His work has been published in "Poetry Spring", "Poetic Autumn of Druskininkai" and other almanacs, collections, anthologies, and has been translated into English, Belarusian, Polish, French, Russian and other languages.