Born in 1942 in the Crijopol region of Jugastru County (today part of Vinnytsia Oblast), Yavorivsky graduated from the Odesa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature".

He worked as an editor on the local radio, as a newspaper reporter ("Zaporizka pravda", "Literaturna Ukraina", "Prapor Yunosti"), a scriptwriter on Lviv television, a literary consultant, a referent of the Writer's Union of Ukraine and as the department chief and deputy editor to Vitchizna Magazine.

Volodymyr Yavorivsky took active part in defending the rights of the Chernobyl disaster victims.

[5] In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into the Verkhovna Rada by winning a constituency in Kyiv for Batkivschyna.

[6] Yavorivsky combined parliamentary functions with the position of the Writer's Union of Ukraine Chairman (appointed October 2001).