Prose writer and dramatist Rimantas Černiauskas was born on September 10, 1950 in Daugai, Alytus region. In 1973, he graduated from the faculty of mathematics at Vilnius University and later he worked as a teacher. In literature, he debuted as a poet, and in 1974, as a prose writer. He is the chairman of Klaipėda section of the Lithuanian Writer’s Union. Since 1984, he has been a member of the Lithuanian Writer’s Union.

The works of little prose are of short story structure with a telling dynamic movement and the highlighted end. The daily life stories and realistically reasoned characters of the actors are prevailing. In the short stories about Gustas, the author uses the poetics of paradox and the grotesque, parodies and discord of the present social culture.

In 2007, the publishing house “Versus aureus” published and presented in the Vilnius book fair R. Černiauskas book for children, Slieko pasaka (A tale of an earthworm).