Born on 17 July 1952 in Paukšteliškių village, Zarasai district.
In 1970 he graduated from secondary school in Zarasai, and in 1975 he obtained a qualification as a philologist and a teacher of Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology. He worked as a teacher at Linkmenų Secondary School in Ignalina district and in Utena. Since 1996 he has been working as a Lithuanian language teacher at Utena Adolfas Šapoka Gymnasium.