Her works of prose examine characters' psychology and social issues of the time, placing women, often with emotional distress, in the roles of protagonists.

She began teaching at a school in Šmihel pri Novem Mestu toward the end of 1911 but became ill and returned home from November 1911 to February 1913.

[6] She contributed articles and poems to the children's magazine Mladinski list (Voice of Youth), for which she was the editor from 1918 to 1926,[7] and worked with the Slovene National Benefit Society (SNPJ), teaching at the Pioneer 559 lodge and directing plays, some of which she wrote, with the Yugoslav Socialist Association in Chicago.

Writing in Slovene, she used simple language and evoked the austerity of immigrant life tempered by humor and from a child's point of view.

[4] Unlike some works of prose by immigrants of the era, her writing lifts women's role to that of the protagonist and fleshes out her characters' psychological motivations.

Her stories are lengthy and characterized by fast pace, familiar idioms, biblical allusions and bitterness, particularly in connection to women's status.

Most of her stories are set in Slovenia, especially those that deal with cruelty to women, violence which Zupančič suggested was almost expected in lower-class families.

A similar theme is found in "Žensko dete" ("The Baby Girl", 1946), in which the title character confesses the rejection she and her sister feel from their father because of their gender.