[5] She was married to the writer Panteleimon Kulish and was the sister of Vasyl and Mykola [uk] Bilozersky.

While she was young, the city had frequent fires, which eventually caused their family home to burn down.

[1][3] At the age of 15, Barvinok met the writer Panteleimon Kulish in Motronivka, when he was invited there by her brother Vasyl.

While recording her observations on a trip to Warsaw, she began collecting materials for her initial works.

[1][7][6] In her literary works, Barvinok's attentions were also focused on the problems of family and domestic relations, including family tyranny (House Disaster, 1861), the joyless fate of being with a drunken man (Women's Poverty, 1887), and the drama of forced marriage (Father's Mistake, 1902).

Using Chernihiv and Poltava dialects, as well as knowledge of rural customs and folklore, she wrote the drama "Mother's Revenge".

[14] Barvinok's works appeared in the almanacs Khata and First Wreath [uk], as well as the journals Osnova, Pravda, and the Literaturno-naukovyi vistynk, among others.

[12][1] Ukrainian writer Borys Hrinchenko praised her work, calling Barvinok "the poet of women's fate.

The most complete collection of her work was published in the 2002 book Ганна Барвінок (English: Hanna Barvinok), edited by Volodymyr Yatsyuk and Vasyl Shenderovsky.

[10] In 2018, the National Writers' Union of Ukraine held an event in Kyiv to celebrate the 190th anniversary of Barvinok's birth.