[1][2] Khoma graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Kremenets Teachers' Institute (1950, now Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University), the Faculty of Philology of Lviv University (1957), and the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1962).
[1][2][3] Khoma worked as a teacher of secondary schools in the villages of Pokropyvna (1949–1950), Tseniv (1953–1956), Kalne (1956–1960), Kupchyntsi (1960–1990); senior researcher at the local history museum in Denysiv (1990–2004, all in Ternopil Raion).
[1][2] Khoma initiated the construction of monuments to Pavlo Dumka and Ivan Franko in Kupchyntsi, Ternopil Raion.
[1][2][3] His research interests include the works of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Ivanna Blazhkevych, Ivan Verkhratskyi, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Pavlo Dumka, Olha Duchyminska, Meletii Kichura, Juliusz Słowacki, and others.
[1][2][3] The author of more than 2000 articles,[4] including local history works about the villages of Drahomanivka, Kupchyntsi, Yastrubove in Ternopil Raion; reviews of scientific, artistic, and local history works; articles in the Shevchenko Dictionary [uk] (1976–1977), Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Literature [uk], Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary [uk], Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary; in the national, oblast, and raion press.