jaak urmet studied estonian philology and history (from 1997 to 2002) at the tallinn pedagogical university and from 2002 to 2004 literary theory (the same university), graduated as m.a. urmet participated "tallinna noored tegijad" (a fellowship of young authors in tallinn) from 1998 to 2000 and is a member of "tartu noorte autorite koondis" since 2000. from 2006 on, urmet is a member of the tallinn club of bibliophiles, from 2007 on a member of the estonian society of literature and the estonian union of writers.