Gracy Ukala used her work to explore female identity, personal resilience, and the clash between tradition and modernity. Her debut novel, Dizzy Angel (1985), about an ogbanje child caught between traditional beliefs and Christianity, won the Nigerian Literary Merit Award for its sharp portrayal of cultural tension.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she wrote scripts for NTA and published Dramas of Love and Marriage (1978). She later authored The Broken Bond (2001), focused on complex relationships, and Ada in London (2005), a semi-autobiographical story of trauma and survival. Ukala also contributed poetry, stories, and essays to outlets like the Nigerian Observer, often reflecting her belief in the human instinct to recover and keep going.