Born on 11 April 1934 in Krake, Kėdainiai district.
In 1944 he left Lithuania with his parents. In Germany, he attended a Lithuanian gymnasium in the Hanau DP (war refugee) camp. In 1950 he left for the USA. He attended high school in Baltimore, graduated from Notre Dame College in Maryland with a degree in chemistry in 1956, and received a master's degree in education in 1966. She worked as a teacher at Redford Union Grammar School in Michigan until 1983, then at Scotlandville Magnet High School in Louisiana. Her work has been published in almanacs, magazines and collections in Lithuania and abroad. She wrote the libretto for D. Lapinski's opera "The Bear" (staged in 1966).