Tomas Petrulis was born in 1987 in Panevėžys. He received a BA in history and MA in religious studies from Vilnius University. He has worked in various archives and at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania Museum, and is now a librarian at the Vilnius University Library Manuscripts Department. Petrulis has published two collections of poetry: Cacophonous Snake (2017, finalist for most creative book and poetry book of the year), Sterile (2020, finalist for most creative book). A selection of his work was published in Ukraine: Footnote on a Dead God (tr. Jurij Zavadskyj and Marius Burokas). His poems have also been translated into English and Polish.