Born on 16.10.1940 in Gulbiniškės, Vilkaviskis district.
In 1959 graduated from Pilviškių secondary school. During his studies and after graduating from secondary school, he participated in the literary activities of Vilkaviskis district and published his poems and journalistic texts in the pages of the district newspaper "Pergalė" (in 1958, as an 11th-grade student, he was awarded the "Correspondent's Certificate"). Graduated from Klaipėda Nautical School (now the Lithuanian Higher School of Seamanship) with the qualification of a technician-navigator, in 1967 he was awarded the qualification of a captain, and was awarded a diploma; in 1971 he graduated from Vilnius University and obtained the qualification of a journalist. In 1964-1967 he worked as a long-distance navigator on various ships, and later as a correspondent for "Tarybnaya Klaipėda" (in the 1980s he founded and edited the newspaper's supplement "Vėjų rožė" (Vėjų rožė), which was devoted to mariners' creativity and the history of the fleet and the sea). Since mid-1969, he and his associates have been organising Poetry Weeks and Literary Wednesdays in the Pamary region, during which works for the newspaper's literary supplement "Gintaro lašai" are discussed. Later he worked as a correspondent of "Lietuvos žvejo" (Lithuanian Fisherman), as a representative of the All-Union Copyright Protection Agency for the Klaipėda zone, as a deputy editor of the newspaper "Klaipėda PASSENGER" (Klaipėda PASSENGER) of the Council of the Lithuanian Resurrection Movement, as a leading specialist of the Department of Fish Industry of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as a methodologist of the Lithuanian Pedagogic Qualification Institute, and as the Chief State Language Manager of the City of Klaipėda.
In 1972 he was admitted to the Lithuanian Union of Journalists. 1991-2006 Chairman of the Klaipėda City Lithuanian Language Commission. Since 1991 - member of the Lithuanian Seamen's Union, since 2010 - member of the Lithuanian Art Creators Association. Lives in Klaipėda. His poems have been published in various collections, and translated into Russian - in the almanacs "Baltika", "Parallels", "Litva literaturnaja".
In 2016 he was awarded the Ieva Simonaitytė Prize