Tomas Petrulis – By Mistake

Tomas Petrulis (b. 1987) graduated from Vilnius University with a BA in History and MA in Religious Studies. He worked at archives, manuscript departments, and museums. In 2017, Petrulis published his first poetry collection Triukšmo gyvatė (“The Snake of Noise,” Naujas vardas, shortlisted for the 2018 Poetry Book of the Year competition), followed in 2020 by his second poetry book Sterili (“Sterile,” Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House). A Ukrainian collection of his poems was published in Ukraine in the same year, titled Примітка про померлого бога (“A Footnote about a Dead God,” translated by Yury Zavadsky and Marius Burokas, Крок). Petrulis published his third book in 2024 – a collection of prose poetry titled Daikto kūnas (“The Body of a Thing,” Baziliskas). All three of his books were included by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in the Top 12 Most Creative Books lists for their respective years. Petrulis’s poems have been translated into English, German, Polish, Estonian, and French.