She completed her secondary education in northern Nigeria and subsequently earned a degree in Computer Science from Abia State Polytechnic, in Aba.
[6] Olisakwe was a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of South Dakota, specializing in Literary Studies and Creative Writing.
[14] She wrote the screenplay for The Calabash,[15][16] a television series produced and directed by Obi Emelonye and premiered in January 2015 on Africa Magic Showcase.
[17] Olisakwe administers the blog for the Writivism Mentorship Programme, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, and was a co-facilitator at the Lagos Workshop.
[6] In 2018, Olisakwe won the Vermont College of Fine Arts Emerging Writers Scholarship to pursue an MFA in Writing and Publishing.