Poet, prose writer and  essayist Rimvydas Stankevičius (b. 1973) is the author of 7 poetry books, several books for children and two books of essays. He is The Poetry Spring laureate, has been awarded the Jotvingian prize and Jurga Ivanauskaitė prize.
He studied Lithuanian language at Vilnius University and has been working as a reporter at daily newspaper “Respublika”. In 2001 he worked at Lithuanian Television where he had a cultural broadcast “Kultūros spąstai”. In 2000 by his dramatization, director Saulius Mykolaitis staged a play “Stop mašina” in the Lithuanian National Drama Theater. In 2002 together with composer Rokas Radzevičius he created a rock opera “Jūratė ir Kastytis”. He also writes lyrics. His poetry has been translated into Polish, Swedish, Finnish, English and other languages. He lives in Vilnius.