Born on 19 March 1936 in Sablauski, Akmenė district.
1936-1953 lived in Šemetaičiai village. In 1946-1953 he attended primary school in Žiliai (Kuršėnai district) and later a seven-year school. Since 1954 he has lived in Klaipėda. In 1956-1959 served in the USSR army. In 1962-1967 he studied at the Klaipėda Polytechnic (now Klaipėda State College), where he obtained a specialisation in technical-construction. From 1956 to 1996 he worked as a technician, engineer, designer and foreman in Klaipėda. He has been publishing his work since 1959. In 1971 he was accepted into the Klaipėda Young Writers' Section of the Lithuanian Writers' Union, and in 1981-1982 he was the chairman of the board of this section. 1989-1998 Deputy Chairman of the Žemaitija Writers' Association. His poems have been translated and published in Russian, Latvian, Polish, German in foreign periodicals and various almanacs and anthologies. Translations of poems have been published in magazines in Poland and Kaliningrad region, for children and adults. Her work is also published in Lithuanian press and almanacs. More than 30 songs are based on his poems.