[5] Rozakis got her start as a writer in 1981 when she published a review book on the Advanced Placement exam in English Literature with ARCO.

In 2004, she wrote essays on Louis Simpson and Alicia Ostriker for the Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature.

Her television work includes serving as the "Vocabulary Judge" in the Word of the Day final contest on Live with Regis and Kelly, being a grammar expert on Good Day New York, and being part of a panel on the CBS The Morning Show and another on the Maury Povich Show.

[2] She has been interviewed for Newsday,[9][10][11] the Los Angeles Times,[12] The Sacramento Bee, The New York Times,[13] the Chicago Tribune,[14] National Public Radio's Morning Edition,[15] New York Daily News,[16] The Newark Star-Ledger,[17] Seventeen magazine,[18] the New York Post,[19] The Dallas Morning News,[20] and Newsday,[21] on grammar and test preparation, Rozakis is married to former comic book writer and editor Bob Rozakis, with whom she has collaborated on a few comic book stories,[22] as well as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Office Politics[23][24] They have two children, son Charles "Chuck", who wrote his Princeton University thesis on the business viability of webcomics,[25] and daughter Samantha "Sammi".

[26] Rozakis has received a number of noteworthy awards including being named the Town of Oyster Bay "Woman of Distinction" in the Arts (2008).