1. Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus (fiction, Ice Cube press, 2018)
2. Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and Miraculous (personal essays, Meadowlark Press, 2017)
3. Following the Curve (poetry, Spartan Press)
4. Kansas Time + Place (anthology co-edited with Roy Beckemeyer, Little Balkans Press, 2017)
5. Teaching Transformation (anthology co-edited with Lise Weil, Goddard Press, 2017)
6. Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word & Image (poetry and photography with Stephen Locke, Ice Cube Press, 2015)
7. To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices (anthology of poetry, Mammoth Press, 2013)
8. Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
9. Poem on the Range: A Poet Laureate's Love Song to Kansas (Coal City Press, 2014)
10. Transformative Language Arts in Action (anthology co-edited with Ruth Farmer, Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
11. The Divorce Girl (fiction, Ice Cube Press, 2012)
12. The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community and Coming Home to the Body (Ice Cube Press, 2009)
13. Landed (poetry, Mammoth Publications, 2009)
14. My Tree of Life: Writing and Living Through Serious Illness (Turning Point, 2009) -- editor and contributor
15. The Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader (TLA Network, 2007) -- editor and contributor
16. A Circle of Women, A Circle of Words (Mammoth Publications, 2005) -- editor and contributor
17. Animals in the House (poetry, Woodley Press, 2004)
18. Reading the Body (chapbook of poetry, Mammoth Publications, 2004)
19. Lot's Wife (poetry, Woodley Press, 2000)
20. Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life (Free Spirit Press, 2000)
21. Sandra Cisneros: Writer and Activist (Enslow Press, 1998)