Olga Nolla studied in Colegio La Milagrosa in Mayagüez during her formative years.
In 1967 Nolla started her Masters in Literature along with her cousin, writer Rosario Ferré at the University of Puerto Rico.
Nolla and Ferré created and directed a literary magazine in 1972 called Zona de carga y descarga which was in circulation until 1975.
Nolla divorced her husband Carlos Conde and started to work as a collaborator in Puerto Rican newspapers, El Nuevo Día and Prensa Libre.
She participated in the Federation of Puerto Rican Women and was editor of its magazine Palabra de Mujer (Word of a Woman) from 1976 to 1977.
During the 1990s, Olga Nolla wrote and produced a televised course on Puerto Rican narrative for the Ana G. Méndez Foundation.
Olga Nolla was very involved in the fight for women's civil rights in Puerto Rico.
[1] Due to her beliefs, she was victim of derogatory comments from public personalities in Puerto Rico who believed her literary work to be too dangerous for the youth.
Before her death, Nolla began sketching the third novel; the setting of the story would have been mid-twentieth century to present-day Puerto Rico.
[7] The Metropolitan University (UMET), where she taught for more than twenty years in the Humanities Department, created an online portal for the purpose of gathering information about her.
[4] Rosario Ferré wrote a poem titled "Rosas de papel", allusive to Nolla's book.