Born on 07.07.1936 in Kaniūkiai, Molėtai district.
Graduated from Alanta secondary school. In 1960 he graduated in Lithuanian studies at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences). Worked at the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature, the Lithuanian State Archive, encyclopaedia editors, radio and television, and as a teacher. He started writing at school, belonged to the Vilnius Young Writers' Section, and published his works in the "Jaunieji" almanac, "Jaunimo gretose", "Literatura ir mene", "Ziemeļ Atėnaios", "Poezijos pavasario" almanac, and in the anthology of poetry of the Molėtai region, "Iš žemės žalumos" (From the Green of the Earth).