[2] Soon after graduation, due to material deprivation, she was forced to get a job with the magazine Zhinocha dolia (Women's fate) in Kolomyia, where she worked until 1939.

From 1930 to 1939, she published a number of short stories and novels about the life of the Western Ukrainian intelligentsia, the petty bourgeoisie, and students.

In 1935, she published the novel Metelyky na shpyl’kakh (Pinned Butterflies) under the pseudonym “Iryna Vilde”.

During the war period, and after the unification of Western Ukraine with Ukrainian SSR, she continued to describe the familiar themes of family in bourgeois society.

Her postwar works include: Nashi bat'ky roziishlysia (Our Parents Have Separated, 1946), Iii portret (Her Portrait 1948), Stezhynamy zhyttia (Along the Paths of Life, 1949), Ti z Kowalskoi (Those of Kowalska, 1947), Iabluni zatsvily vdruhe (The Apple Trees Have Blossomed Again, 1949), Povisti ta opovidannia (Tales and Stories" 1949), Zhyttia til’ky pochynaiet’sia (Life Is Just Beginning, 1961), Troiandy i ternia (Roses and Thorns, 1961), the novel Sestry Richynski[3] (The Richynsky Sisters, 2 vols, 1958, 1964) and many others.