She was born in Toay, La Pampa, to Carmelo Gugliotta, a Sicilian from Capo d'Orlando, and an Argentinean mother, Cecilia Orozco.

[1] Orozco directed some literary publications using some pseudonymous names while she worked as a journalist.

She was a member of so-called «Tercera Vanguardia» generation, which had a strong surrealist tendency.

Olga Orozco died in Buenos Aires from a heart attack at the age of 79.

[2] Engravings Torn from Insomnia, trans Mary Crow, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2002.