Born on 28 November 1949 in Papili, Rokiškis district.
In 1972 graduated in Lithuanian language and literature from Vilnius University. Teacher and lecturer at Klaipėda Conservatoire. Since 1975 she has been a professor of Lithuanian and Comparative Literature at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences). Collaborates in the cultural press. She works in the field of social pedagogy with the homeless, street children, the disabled, and established a summer camp for them in Inkūnai. Her work has been translated into English, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Hebrew and German. In 2012, based on the idea of the book "Pronounced out of Darkness", director G. Beinoriūtė made a documentary film "Conversations on Serious Topics".