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Shelley Herman is an Emmy-nominated TV writer who is married to actor Randall Carver. She attended Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, and graduated from California State University, Northridge with a BA degree in Radio, TV, and Film.

Herman has written for Supermarket Sweep, Liar's Club, Love Connection, Breakaway, Outdoor Outtakes, Trivia Unwrapped, Balderdash, Show Me the Money, and The Million Second Quiz. She was also a contestant twice on The Dating Game. Herman also hosted several talk-radio shows in Los Angeles, California.

Herman starred in the TV series Off the Wall and Night Rap, and co-hosted ESPN’s Battle of The Monster Trucks and Mud Bog Spectacular. Herman is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Writers Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Herman's book My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page (2023) is about her experiences in the 1970s as a NBC Page in Burbank, California. Herman got the 18-month position after the mother of a woman, she worked with at Sears, referred her to Eba Hawkins who was head of human resources at NBC.

As a page, she worked on TV shows such as The Tonight Show, The Gong Show, The Midnight Special, Hollywood Squares, Password, Sanford and Son, and Chico and the Man.

In her book, Herman recalled stories about Johnny Carson, Robin Williams, Gilda Radner, Freddie Prinze, Richard Pryor, Chuck Barris, Harry Chapin, Alfred Hitchcock, Erik Estrada, and McLean Stevenson.