From a very young age she moved with her parents to the city of Rosario, where she has lived ever since. Her parents, the merchant Fernando Félix Arcal and the poet Angélica de Arcal, had married in 1924 and had moved from Rosario to Buenos Aires. In 1936 the family returned to Rosario. Surrounded by books, as a child she already wanted to be a writer.
Following her marriage to the architect Sujer Gorodischer in 1948, she chose her surname as a pseudonym, under which she would appear as a literary author. She studied at the Normal School No. 2 of Professors in Rosario and she began to pursue a career at the University of Philosophy and Letters of the National University of the Litoral, which did not finish.
In 1964 she won a contest for the "Vea y Lea" magazine with the detective story "En verano, a la siesta y con Martina". In 1988 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, thanks to which she participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 1991, also with a Fulbright scholarship, she taught at the University of Northern Colorado.
From 1967 to 2022, she was a jury member of various literary awards in Argentina and other countries. She lectured more than 350 lectures, especially on fantasy literature, on feminine writing and has been translated into English, French, German and is about to be translated into Italian and Greek. She is considered one of the three most important female voices in science fiction in Latin America.

Angélica passed away in her dear Rosario on february 5, 2022.