Ọlákìtán writes stories that often speak of what remains hidden. In 2019, her story Girl of My Dreams appeared in Prairie Schooner and went on to win the Lawrence Foundation Award. Her work has been published in Lit Quarterly, Newfound Journal, Watershed Review, Kissing Dynamite, Down River Road, Memento, Agbowó Art, Kalahari Review and others. She grew up in Nigeria and now lives in London, where she is writing her second novel.