Dabija was born on 15 July 1948 in Codreni village, Cimișlia, at the time in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union.

Other titles include: "Untouched water" (1980); "The Unknown Paintner" (1985); "Wing under the shirt" (1989); "Domestic Blackbird" (1992); "The right on the error" (1993); "The tears that can see" (1994); "The Stone Egg" (1995); "The interior Sky" (1998); "The Lightning photographer", (1998); "The homework" (novel; 2009); and "Wishes handyman" (2016).

Starting with 1986, he was the editor-in-chief of the weekly Literatura și Arta (Literature and Art) edited by the Union of Writers of the Republic of Moldova.

In its glory period, the weekly "Literature and Art" exceeded the circulation of 260,000 copies, and played an important role in the struggle for national rebirth in Moldova in the late 1980s.

In 2023, on the territory of the Regional Museum of History, Ethnography and Art of Cimislia, the Moldovan sculptor Veaceslav Jiglițchi will install a bust of the poet[4]