Rumaizah Abu Bakar was born in Kedah. She wrote short stories and poems as a teenager at the MARA Junior Science College (MRSM) in Penang. 

She has a Bachelor in Accountancy degree from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), a Diploma in Public Relations from the Institute of Public Relations Malaysia (IPRM) and a Diploma in Islamic Studies from International Islamic University Malaysia (UIA). She has more than fifteen years of  public relations experience in hospitality, banking, government agency, consultancy and conservation. She contributes literary articles and book reviews regularly to a leading English newspaper in Malaysia. 

Rumaizah’s prose first appeared in the volume, 'News From Home', published in 2007. Her debut collection of short fictions and travel stories, 'The Female Cell', was published by Silverfish Books in April 2011 and shortlisted for the 2012 Popular Book Award. Her third book, 'A Call to Travel: Muslim Odysseys - Journeys of a Muslim Woman through Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia' was released in January 2015.