Laurence Nobécourt was born in Paris in 1968 where she began writing as a child. Her first book, La Démangeaison, was published in 1994 under the name Lorette Nobécourt. She has since published novels, stories, poetry and theater, first under the name of Lorette Nobécourt and then, since 2016, under her real identity. She left Paris in 2007 for the Drôme where she transmits – through her writing workshops – the Way of the Word which she conceived as an initiatory relationship to writing