Born on 06.02.1959 in Smyga, Dubno District, Rovno Oblast (Western Ukraine).
1981 - graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Lviv University, later postgraduate studies at the Gorky Institute of Literature. Worked at the Lutsk Pedagogical Institute, then at the editorial offices of the magazines "Laima" and "Woman". Author of the Moscow literary magazine Novyj mir, the French Les Alpes vagabondes. His work has also been published in Ukraine and France: his novel Les Parias d'Eden was published in French by one of the largest French publishing houses. In Lithuania, his prose has been published in the cultural publications Metai, Literatūra ir menas, 7 meno dienos, Nemunas and elsewhere. His work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Esperanto, Russian, Ukrainian, Azeri, Croatian and other languages. Member of the Ukrainian Writers' Union. Lives in Vilnius.