[1] Maria Halych was born into a teacher's family with many children in Sukha Kalihirka village, now Katerynopil district, Cherkasy region.

In 1921, Halych entered the philological faculty of Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television, which she graduated in 1926 without defending her diploma.

[2]After the rehabilitation of the members of “Lanka,” Halych takes an active part in the Lviv evenings of commemoration and writes memories about Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Hryhorii Kosynka, and Valerian Pidmohylny, which remained in manuscripts.

Halych wrote Impressionist prose such as the collections Printer (1927), My Career (1930), short story Spring (1928), and memoirs.

[4] The works of Maria Halych describe the fate of women under new social conditions as well as human psychology in a critical, "borderline" situation.