On Writing Fiction (Writer's Digest Books, 2011), Words Overflown by Stars (Writer's Digest Books, 2009), Alone With All That Could Happen (Writer's Digest Books, 2008), You Are Not Here (Fleur-de-lis Press, 2002), Black Maps (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996), Improvising Rivers (Cleveland State University Press, 1995), The Best of Crazyhorse (University of Arkansas Press, 1990), Strong Measures (Harper & Row, 1986), Crimes of Passion (Story Press, 1984)

The Pushcart Book of Short Stories (Pushcart Press, 2002), The Pushcart Prize XVI: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 1992), Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1991), The Pushcart Prize XIV: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 1990), Prize Stories 1983: The O. Henry Awards (Doubleday, 1983)

Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Nation, The Writer's Chronicle