Shua published her first book on poetry, El sol y yo, when she was fifteen years old,[5] in 1967, for which she received the Honor Strip given by the Argentine Society of Writers. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained a master's degree in arts and literature.[citation needed] During the last military dictatorship in Argentina, often called the National Reorganization Process, she was exiled to France where she worked for the Spanish magazine Cambio 16.[citation needed] Once back in Argentina, she published her first novel, entitled Soy paciente, in 1980, for which she won an award given by Losada publishing house.[citation needed] In 1984, she published La sueñera, a collection of micro fiction.