Mishol's family immigrated to Israel when she was four. Her parents ran a grocery store in Gedera and spoke mainly Hungarian at home. Mishol holds a BA in literature from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and an MA in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mishol is married to Giora Fried and lives on a farm in Kfar Mordechai. They have two children, Maya and Uri. Character lines - Haaretz - Israel News
Mishol runs poetry workshops at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Alma College in Tel Aviv. She has won the Tel Aviv Foundation Award (1991), the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize (2002), the Prime Minister's Prize, and the Dolitzky Prize for Poetry (2007).