Born on 01 01 1946 in Antkalnė, Jurbarkas district.
1971-1982 worked as a surgeon in Šakiai, 1983-1990 in Vilnius, taught surgery at the Vilnius Medical School (now the Faculty of Vilnius College of Medicine). 1991-1996 worked in various state and public organisations, actively participated in the creation of a system of social rehabilitation of people with physical disabilities. 1997-1998 worked at the Ministry of Social Security and Labour. Together with his associates, he founded the Lithuanian Union of People with Disabilities in 1995 and has been its Vice President since 1999. In 1995 he founded the publishing house "Joružis", in 1996 the magazine "Bičiulis", and from 1999 to 2010 he was the editor-in-chief of this magazine. From 1999 to 2005 he worked as a lecturer at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Since 2011, he has been devoted to creative activity, participating in various creative projects. His poetry and prose have been translated into German, Latvian, Polish, English, Georgian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian, and published in the almanacs Brüken1Tiltai (2004), Lietuviešu un latviešu dzejas diena (Lietuviešu un latviešu dzejas diena) (2006), After the northern sky (2008), Swiadectvo (2009), Diemedžio vakarai (2009), and elsewhere.