He studied Comparative literature and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a journalist at the Slovene section of the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service and now works at Radio Slovenija.
He has published a number of collections of his own poetry and also translates English and American poets into Slovene. Since 2009 he is president of the Slovenian section of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association International. He is an honorary fellow of the University of Iowa and the Hong Kong Baptist University.