[3] Self-taught in journalism, she began her professional career at the newspaper Excélsior,[1] where she worked for more than 10 years, and later wrote for the political analysis magazine Proceso.
In 1976, she was one of the founders of the first women's sexual assault support group in Mexico, Centro de Apoyo para Mujeres Violadas AC (CAMVAC).
[4] In 1979, after the victory of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, she left Mexico to coordinate the Sandinista publication El Trabajador for three years.
[9]Narrated in first person, Amora is set in Mexico City, and tells, in a simple way, the difficulties women experience in an environment that is heavy with machismo.
[5] In June 2019, as part of LGBT Pride Month celebrations, Rosamaría Roffiel was the subject of a tribute as one of the "protagonists of Mexican literature" at Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes.