Nerijus Cibulskas – Yalta

Nerijus Cibulskas was born in 1987 in Kaišiadorys. He graduated from Vilnius University, where he studied Lithuanian language and literature. He worked in the library of Vilnius University and wrote articles for the Lithuanian cultural media, including Metai, Šiaurės Atėnai, Kulturpolis.lt, MiestoIQ.lt, and Bernardinai.lt. He still writes book reviews for 370 magazine.

He published his first poems while still in school. In 2012 he won the First Book Competition organized by the Writers’ Union, and his debut poetry collection Nutrinami was published. He was an editor of the Poetry Spring Festival anthology in 2016. His second book, Archeologija, was published in 2016 and was awarded the Young Yotvingian Prize, which is the most important prize for young poets in Lithuania. Veneros was published in 2019 and epoché  in 2022.

His poems have been published in all the main Lithuanian magazines and anthologies: Metai, Naujoji Romuva, Literatūra ir menas, Šiaurės Atėnai, Nemunas, Krantai, Gintaro lašai, Literatūrinės Vilniaus slinktys, Poezijos pavasaris, Poetinis Druskininkų ruduo, and Vilnius Review. His poems have also appeared on the European poetry platform Versopolis.