From the age of two or three she was under the care of a maternal uncle, priest Rafael Guillermo Correa González-Hermosillo, who took her to live in Tenamaxtlán, Jalisco and assigned her a private teacher, Miss Crescencia López.
Olivia, of extraordinary beauty, in 1942 was studying dramatic art with the japanese actor, stage director and choreographer Seki Sano.
Her first work was published in print in 1947, a volume of poetry titled Amante imaginado (Imagined Lover), with a prologue by the Spanish playwright Luis Fernández Ardavín.
In the 1950s and 1960s she collaborated in the Guadalajaran magazines Ariel, by Emmanuel Carballo; Et Caetera, by Adalberto Navarro Sánchez, and Summa and Xallixtlico, by Arturo Rivas Sainz (of whom she was a student in the subject of Grammar), and in the Mexico City magazines Fuensanta and México en la Cultura.
In her last years she could be seen in Mexico City, living alone and with her face covered by a veil, because like the Swedish actress Greta Garbo, she disliked for people to see how time had taken its toll on her beauty.