Born on 14 October 1971 in Panevėžys.
Studied at Panevėžys 2nd Secondary School in the enhanced Lithuanian literature programme. 1989-1990 - Kaunas Theological Seminary, 1993-1998 - studied philosophy and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts (USA), graduated cum laude. In 2000, he received a Master's degree in Philosophy from Vytautas Magnus University, and in 2008 - a Doctor of Philosophy degree. He has taught philosophy at Vytautas Magnus and Klaipėda Universities, given public lectures at Fribourg, Lund and Edinburgh Universities, lectured at the University of Helsinki, and had a fellowship in 2009-2011 at the Universities of Bucharest, Sofia, Prague, and Gdansk. In 2000, the first short stories and novellas were published in Nemunas magazine. In 2015-2016, Metai published excerpts from his novels. Since 2003 he has been writing essays and is a regular contributor to the monthly magazine "Kultūros barai". His essays have been translated into Bulgarian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Russian and English and published on Eurozine.com. 2015-2016 Resident of Klaipėda Centre for Culture and Communication. In 2020, he prepared a scientific monograph "Changing Europe" on cultural and political changes in Europe from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the present day for publication. He has also drafted and edited a collective monograph in English, Europe Thirty Years after 1989, to be published by Brill-Rodopi in 2021. The texts are authored by scholars from various European universities. The author is currently a lecturer in philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University and a senior research fellow at the Centre for Social and Political Critique. Since 2011 - member of the Lithuanian PEN Centre, 2014-2019 - member of the Board of Kaunas Chess Club "Margiris", now - member.