Born on 05.10.1959 in Poland, Seinai county.
In 1978 he entered Vilnius University, where he graduated in journalism. She worked in Poland for the weekly newspaper "Krajobrazy" of the Suwałki Voivodeship and for the Lithuanian minority publication "Aušra", and held the position of assistant spokeswoman in the Suwałki municipality. She has lived in Lithuania since 1985. For seven years she was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Šeima (Family), in 2002-2003 she edited the magazine Šeima ir pasaulis (Family and the World) and was its editor-in-chief. In 2003, she worked as the Secretary of the Board of the Lithuanian Writers' Union, from the end of 2003 until 2018 she worked as the Vice-Chairman of the Union, and since 2018 she has been acting as the Chairman. Her first short stories appeared in 1986 in the magazine "Pergalės" (now "Metai"). Her prose, poetry, journalism and essays are published in various cultural publications. Her short stories have been translated into English, French, Belarusian, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Georgian, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovak, Czech and Spanish.