[3][4] She teaches fiction at the University of San Francisco and is a visiting professor at Saint Mary's College of California.
[3] Her 2018 novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a fictionalized narrative of Rojas Contreras' own childhood growing up in Colombia with the backdrop of late 20th century political and social unrest and violence.
[5] Her memoir details Rojas Contreras' 2012 trip back to Colombia with her mother Sojaila to explore her family's history.
While in Colombia, Rojas Contreras learns about her family's history and her heritage, dating all the way back to colonial times.
In a mixed review, writing in the New York Times, Miguel Salazar criticized the sections of the memoir pertaining to colonialism or Colombian history stating that: "Some reflections are vague, airy, even bordering on cringe.