 According to the Bulgarian poet and writer Silvia Choleva "Boukova is a Borgesian type of author.She favors play, references, riddles unexpected twists, ironies, and the dramaturgy of verse.She possesses deep knowledge not just in the sphere of the humanities, in which she specialized, but she is also enticed by science, she knows a lot, and all of this is reflected in "Notes of the Phantom Woman""

Iana Boukova is the author of the short story collections "A as in Аnything" (2006) and "Tales With No Retur"n (2016), and the novel "Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow".