All Aboard: Stories (Turtle Point Press, 2008), The Near Future (Turtle Point Press, 2006), The Near Future (Turtle Point Press, 2006), Touch Wood: Short Stories (Turtle Point Press, 2002), Resident Aliens (New Amsterdam, 2000), Lithuania: Short Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), The Kentucky Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), Eelgrass (New Directions, 1977), Eelgrass (New Directions, 1977)

Long Story Short (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), 200 Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State (University of Kentucky Press, 2005), So the Story Goes: Twenty-five Years of the Johns Hopkins Fiction Series (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories (University of Kentucky Press, 2001), Voices from Home: The NC Prose Anthology (Avisson Press, 2001), The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the NC Museum of Art's 50th (North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), This is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary NC Writers (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), A Contemporary Anthology of Fiction and Poetry (Jacan Press, 1986), The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 1984), Contemporary American Fiction (Sun & Moon Press, 1983), New Directions in Prose and Poetry (New Directions, 1983), The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 1979), Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1972)

American Voice, Antaeus, Aspen Anthology, Carolina Quarterly, Confrontation, Fence, Fiction, Fiction International, Golden Handcuffs Review, Harper's, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Iowa Review, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Kenyon Review, Louisville Review, Mid-American Review, Minnesota Review, New American Writing, Northwest Review, Raritan, Review of Contemporary Fiction, TriQuarterly, VIA, Witness, Yale Review