Elizabeth Wymarra has worked as a performing artist, comedian, playwright and freelance writer. Her father was a Gudang man and her mother, a Wakaidt woman from Badu Island in the Western region of the Torres Straits. Wymarra studied visual and performing arts at New South Wales TAFE in Sydney, and has completed a degree in Creative Writing. She is the mother of Wandihnu Wymarra .
She studied for her Batchelor of Arts Degree in Creative Writing and Language/Linguistics at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Studies, Northern Territory.