At age 16, Roca moved to Girona, where she ended up establishing her residence.

In the mid-1980s, she rose in the Catalan cultural panorama when she was awarded the Víctor Català prize.

She continued her literary activity with a number of tales, novels and also a script for the TV series Secrets de família, broadcast by TV3.

Her career has always had a lot of success, both with literary prizes and translations into several languages, including Spanish, Basque, French, German and Dutch.

Roca is vice-president of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.