Born on 24.10.1960 in Ruponis, Pakruojis district.
1978-1983 studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University.1984-1987 studied at the Moscow Institute of World Literature. In 1989 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Traditions of Folk Culture in Lithuanian Poetry of the 1980s and 1990s" in Moscow, which was later nostrified in Lithuania. Since 1989 he has been working at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in the Department of Contemporary Literature.