Her older sister was chess player and journalist Merike Rõtova and her first cousin was actress Helle Kuningas.

[2] Besides books she wrote also worked as a screenwriter for the television programs, including the Eesti Televisioon drama series Õnne 13.

The most fertile creative period in her less than 50 years of life fell into the 1980s when she published collections of both poetry and short stories but also children's books and plays.

The painfully realistic story about the forsaken cat Teofrastus (1985), which reflects the value judgements and sore points of that time's society, may have inspired several younger writers’ children's books about cats and given a new dimension to the local identity of the Mustamäe district in Tallinn and the South Estonian village Peedu.

Teofrastus was made into a puppet film as late as in 2018, which proves the strong impact the book had on children when was published, and how it continues to live on in their memories.