Born on 24 November 1947 in Pajevonyje (Blauzdžiūnai), Vilkaviskis district.
In 1972 he graduated from Vilnius University, obtained a degree in philology, a teacher of Lithuanian language and literature. In 1985 he graduated from the Higher Literature Course of the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. Worked in a correctional labour colony, editorial offices, the "Reklamos" agency, the Lithuanian Film Studio, Lithuanian Telefilm, the Lithuanian Writers' Union and elsewhere. Poems have been translated and published in Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, French and other languages.