[2] She began writing as a very young girl, encouraged by her father, an Italian doctor who introduced her to Leopardi 's poetry and who died when she was 11 years old.
[3][4] In 1942, at the age of 21, a few months after settling in the San Vicente District, a semi-rural area 45 kilometers from Buenos Aires, where she continued to live, the publishing house "Conducta", directed by Leónidas Barletta, published her first book on poetry Umbral de tierra, for which she was awarded the Municipal Prize and the Martín Fierro Prize.
The work, in which some critics saw the influence of Leopoldo Lugones and Horacio Rega Molina while others "rescued the song of a girl who was emotionally poured out before the conspiracy of beings animated or not, with expressive fullness and lyrical nobility.
In 1952 she published Corazón cavado which prompted the critic Luis Soler Cañas to write.
Regarding the latter, she says that she had always felt the drama of the family clan destined to dismember and that suddenly, without having expressly proposed it, one day she found herself giving literary form to the subject.