Born on 05 April 1977 in Vilnius.
Graduated from Vilnius Mikalojaus Daukša Secondary School in 1995. From 1995 to 2000 he studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius Pedagogical University (now Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences). In 2014, he enrolled in the joint doctoral studies of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and Mykolas Riomeris University in the field of philology.
From 2004 to 2009, he worked as an editor of the weekly "Literatūra ir menas" (Literature and Art) in the journalism section and the youth pages "Aktyvios jungtys" (Active Connections), and from 2009 to 2015, he worked as a culture editor at the daily newspaper Bernardinai.lt. Since 2015 he has been the editor-in-chief of the monthly "Metai".