Born on 13 February 1928 in Noriūnai (Kupiškis district), died on 13 July 2006 in Kupiškis.
In 1952 graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Vilnius University. He worked as an editor at the State Publishing House of Fiction, in 1958-1961 - as a responsible secretary at the editorial office of the Moksleivis magazine, in 1962-1970 - as a poetry consultant to the Lithuanian Writers' Union, and from 1970 - for nineteen years - as an executive secretary of the magazine Pergale.