Noémi László was born a Hungarian in Cluj, Romania, in 1973. She majored in Hungarian and English at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj in 1996. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1995. She has written five volumes of poetry for adults and four books for children since. She works as an editor for the Hungarian literary review Helikon based in Cluj and teaches creative writing at the Department of Communication of the BBU, CJ. In 2011, she received a PhD in Modern English Literature at Budapest Eötvös Loránd University. She also translates poetry and prose from Romanian and English into Hungarian, works as a freelance interpreter and runs occasional half-marathons. Noémi László was awarded the József Attila prize in 2010.