Her mother was Eve Shannon was a Canadian immigrant, who hosted Jewish refugees in London.

[1] When she was 17 years old she moved from England to Washington, D.C., to live with her Irish father who worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Her collection of essays, Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, was published, with a commentary by Jonathan D. Katz, by Psychology Press (1998), exploring the construction of masculinity and conflicting identities.

She appears in Lynn Hershman Leeson's 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.

[4] Roth was interviewed for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Elizabeth Murray Oral History project.