Born on 22 February 1960 in exile in Barnaul (Barnaul), Russia, Siberia.
Since 1962 lives in Vilnius. Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics of Vilnius University in 1983. From 1990 to 2000 he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Culture and Art; from 1994 to 2002 he was the Director of International Programmes of the Lithuanian Writers' Union and the Director of the international poetry festival "Poezijos pavasaris". Since 1994, he has been a member of the Board of the Lithuanian Writers' Union for several terms, and since 1999 - a member of the Lithuanian PEN Club. From 1994 to 1998 he was Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Writers' Union. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Board of the Baltic Writers' Council. In 2003-2014 he worked as Editor-in-Chief of Vilnius magazine, published in English (The Vilnius Review) and Russian (Вильнюс). He translates and publishes contemporary poetry, including Wisława Szymborska, Carolyn Forshé, Dannie Abse, John Freeman, Uroš Zupan, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Jerome Rothenberg, Desmond Egan, Jacek Podsiadło, Marcin Świetlicki, Tomasz Różycki, Bernardine Evaristo, Harvey L. Hix, Michael Schmidt, Bohdan Zadura, Pascale Petit, and others. He has also translated numerous articles on culture and philosophy (W. Chrostowski, H. Cox, T. K. Derry, G. K. Chesterton, I. Hassan, J.-F. Lyotard, F. Jameson, H. Kung, H. White, S. Sontag). His poems have been translated into more than ten foreign languages, and he actively participates in international literary festivals, events and projects.
Member of the Lithuanian Writers' Union since 1993.