She is a member of the National union of writers of Ukraine, Ukrainian PEN Club, Free academy in Munich and Federal association of artists.

Emma Andiewska attended school only occasionally because of her frequent heavy diseases, and as such had to learn by herself.

Emma Andijewska's father was shot by the Soviet authorities so that he could not transfer his discoveries to Germans.

In 1959 she married the Ukrainian literary critic, essayist and writer Ivan Koshelivets, and lived together with him for forty years.

From 1955 to 1995 Andijewska worked as an announcer, a scriptwriter and the editor of the Ukrainian department of Radio Liberty in Munich.