[2] Hanna Herman was born in a village of Kolodruby in Lviv Oblast to Mykola Petrovych Stetsiv (1932–1971, worker) and Kateryna Hryhorivna Hanushchak (1936 – 2013, cultural activist).

[3] From 1981 to 1984, she worked at the Mykolaiv Raion newspaper "Leninska Zorya" (Lenin's Dawn) as a teletypist, reporter, head of department.

[3] From 1991 to 2002, Hanna Herman worked at the Lviv city newspaper "Ratusha" (Rathaus) as a reporter, while being an independent correspondent of Radio Liberty.

From November 2007 to February 2010 Hanna Herman was the People's Deputy of Ukraine of VI convocation, Head of the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech and information (12.2007–02.2010).

[7] On 23 November 2012, President Yanukovych dismissed Herman from the post of his adviser and head of the presidential administration's department for humanitarian, social and political issues so she could to take in the seat in the Ukrainian Parliament she had won in the October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election where she was placed 13th on the election list of the Party of Regions.

On 27 November 2014 Hanna Herman's book "A Girl and Cosmites" which was published in French language this year, was awarded Grand Prix Solenzara.

On 18 November 2016 Hanna Herman was named one of the most powerful speakers in the times of Ukraine's independence, along with dissident Viacheslav Chornovil and writer Lina Kostenko.