Elisabeth Brami was born in Warsaw. After graduate studies in humanities and literature, she became a psychologist. She has been practicing this profession since 1974 in a Day Hospital for teenagers in the Paris region. Married and a mother of three children, she became a "youth author" in 1990 and was then published by Bordas. Since then she has continued to write and some of her works have been translated in the United States, Germany and Japan. Elisabeth Brami is a member of the charter of youth authors and illustrators and participates in animations and writing workshops.