Leah Mow-Yoffee has 'worked in factories, shops, offices, in welfare work and as a silversmith'. She has travelled widely in Australia and Israel and has also spent time in Europe, Asia and North America. Mow-Yoffee has studied poetry at the Council of Adult Education, the Box Hill Centre for Women's Education and Box Hill College of TAFE, Victoria.
(Source: She Writes Her Rites and Rights, 1993)