Contributions To Anthologies

  • “Small Wonder.” The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays from Orion, Orion Magazine, North Hampton, Massachusetts, 2020.

  • “Letter from Barbara Kingsolver to Doris Lessing.” Hinterland: The Best New Creative Fiction, Edited by Freya Dean and Andrew Kendrick, Issue 1, Spring 2019.

  • “A Pure High Note of Anguish.” War No More, edited by Lawrence Rosenwald, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., distributed in the United States by Penguin Random House, New York, 2016.

  • “Bird-Watching with My Dad.” Foreword for The Living Bird from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with photography by Gerrit Vyn, Mountaineer Books, Seattle WA, 2015.

  • “The Pair,” Two, photographs by Melissa Ann Pinney, edited by Ann Patchett, Harper Design (New York), 2015.

  • “How To Be Hopeful.” Way More Than Luck: Commencement Speeches, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2015.

  • “Where It Begins,” in The Best American and Science Writing 2014 edited by Deborah Blum and Tim Folger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (New York), 2014.

  • Introduction for The Awakening by Kate Chopin, reissued by Canongate Books Ltd. (London), 2014.

  • “How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life,” in The Public Library: A Photographic Essay, by Robert Dawson. Princeton Architectural Press. (New York), 2014.

  • “Where to Begin,” in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, edited by Ann Hood. W.W. Norton & Company. (New York), 2014.

  • “Reconstructing Our Desires,” in Literature and Culture: A Reader on Nature and Culture, edited by Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic and John P. O’Grady. Pearson. (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2013.

  • Summary and excerpts from The Poisonwood Bible in The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics, edited by Nina Rosenstand. McGraw-Hill. (New York), 2013.

  • “Another American Way,” in Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, edited by Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky. New Internationalist Publications Ltd. (Oxford, United Kingdom), 2012.

  • “The One Eyed Monster and Why I Don’t Let Him In” from Small Wonder in Companions in Wonder: Children and Adults Exploring Nature Together, edited by Julie Dunlap and Stephen R. Kellert. The MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2011.

  • Excerpt from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in The Conscious Kitchen: The New Way to Buy and Cook Food—to protect the Earth, Improve Your Health, and Eat Deliciously by Alexandra Zissu. Clarkson Potter (New York), 2010.

  • Excerpt from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World, edited by Martin Keogh. North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, CA), September 7, 2010.

  • “How to Be Hopeful” in Creating a Life You’ll Love, edited by Mark Chimsky-Lustig. Sellers Publishing (South Portland, ME), 2009.

  • “Household Words” in Creating Nonfiction: A Guide and Anthology, by Becky Bradway and Doug Hesse. Bedford / St. Martin’s (Boston, MA), 2009.

  • Excerpt from The Poisonwood Bible in Sisters: An Anthology, edited by Jan Freeman, Emily Wojcik, and Deborah Bull. Paris Press (Ashfield, MA), 2009.

  • Foreword for Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming, a project of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics, edited by Richard Hayes. Penguin Classics (Cambridge, MA), 2009.

  • “The Blessings of Dirty Work” in Hunger and Thirst: Food Literature, edited by Nancy Cary, June Cressy, Ella deCastro Baron, Alys Masek and Trissy McGhee. San Diego City Works Press (San Diego, CA), 2008.

  • “Letter to a Daughter at 13” in The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change, edited by Shari MacDonald Strong. Seal Press (Berkeley, CA), 2008.

  • “The Monster’s Belly” in Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other USA, edited by Jon Anderson. Smokestack Books (Middlesbrough, UK), 2008.

  • Excerpt from “Lily’s Chickens” in Voluntary Simplicity. Northwest Earth Institute (Portland, OR), 2008.

  • “How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life” in After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose About School, edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler. University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 2007.

  • “Why I Am a Danger to the Public” in The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume 2, The 20th Century edited by Lisa Marie Hogeland and Shay Brawn. Aunt Lute Books (San Francisco, CA), 2007.

  • “Waiting for Asparagus” in Best Food Writing 2007, edited by Holly Hughes. The Perseus Books Group (New York), 2007.

  • Excerpt of “The One-Eyed Monster, and Why I Don’t Let Him In” in Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets by Barbara Brock. Eastern Washington University Press (Spokane, WA), 2007.

  • Excerpt from Prodigal Summer in Mighty Giants: An American Chestnut Anthology, edited by Chris Bolgiano and Glenn Novak. Images from the Past (Bennington, VT), 2007.

  • “The Art of Buying Nothing” in Wendell Berry: Life and Work, edited by Jason Peters. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2007.

  • “Lily’s Chickens” in Child Honoring: How to Turn This World Around, edited by Raffi Cavoukian and Sharna Olfman. Praeger (Westport, Conn., London), 2006.

  • Excerpt from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in The Complete Organic Pregnancy, by Deidre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu. HarperCollins Publishers (New York), 2006.

  • Numerous definitions in Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney. Trinity University Press (San Antonio, TX), 2006.

  • “Civil Disobedience at Breakfast” in At Work in Life’s Garden: Writers on the Spiritual Adventure of Parenting, edited by Sarah Conover and Tracy Springberry. Eastern Washington University Press (Spokane, WA), 2005.

  • Excerpt from Prodigal Summer in Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds, edited by Dylan Nelson and Kent Nelson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York), 2005.

  • “Deadline,” “Our Father Who Drowns the Birds” and “Refuge” in Imagine a World: Poetry for Peacemakers, compiled by Peggy Rosenthal. PaxChristi USA (Erie, PA), 2005.

  • “Letter to a Daughter at 13” in I Wanna Be Sedated: 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers, edited by Faith Conlon and Gail Hudson. Seal Press / Avalon Publishing Group (Emeryville, CA), 2005.

  • Excerpt from “The Memory Place” in Of Woods and Waters: A Kentucky Outdoor Reader, edited by Ron Ellis. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2005.

  • “Sea to Shining Sea” adapted from “Knowing Our Place,” in America 24/7. DK Books (New York), 2003.

  • Foreword in The Essential Agrarian Reader, edited by Norman Wirzba. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2003.

  • “Stone Soup” in The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines. McGraw-Hill (New York), 2003.

  • “Canary Island” in Our Own Anthology, New York Times, 2003.

  • “My Desert Pond” in Sisters of the Earth, edited by Lorraine Anderson. Vintage Books (New York), 2003.

  • Excerpts from The Bean Trees and Prodigal Summer in Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia Hudson. The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2003.

  • “The Good Farmer ” in Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioner’s Journal, Vol. XXII, No. 1. Dharma Communications (Mt. Tremper, NY), 2003.

  • “Beating Time” in Teaching with Fire: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Teach, Sam M. Intrator, Megan Scribner, Parker J. Palmer, Tom Vander Ark. Jossey Bass (San Francisco), 2003.

  • “A Pure High Note of Anguish” in Women On War, edited by Daniela Gioseffi. The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2003.

  • “The Middle Daughter” and “Remember the Moon Survives” in A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry, edited by Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, and Micki Reaman. Calyx Books (Corvallis, OR), 2002.

  • “What Has Changed For All of Us” in After 9/11: Solutions For a Saner World, edited by Don Hazen, Tate Hausman, Tamara Straus, and Michelle Chihara. Independent Media Institute (San Francisco), 2002.

  • “No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak” in The Moral of the Story by Nina Rosenstand, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002.

  • “A Pure, High Note of Anguish” in September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Susan Hawthorne and Bronwyn Winter. Spinifex Press (Australia), 2002.

  • “Saying Grace” in This Land Is Your Land: Turning to Nature In a Time of Crisis, 2002.

  • “Messing With the Sacred,” Appalachian Journal, Vol. 28 No. 3, Spring 2001.

  • “Seeing Scarlet” written with Steven L. Hopp in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Edward O. Wilson. Houghton Mifflin (Boston), 2001.

  • Introduction in The Best American Short Stories 2001, edited by Barbara Kingsolver, Houghton Mifflin (Boston), 2001.

  • High Tide In Tucson” in Getting Over the Color Green, edited by Scott Slovic. University of Arizona Press (Tucson), 2001.

  • “Homeland” in Homeland and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories, edited by Morris Allen Grubbs. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 2001.

  • “A Forbidden Territory Familiar to All” in Writers [on Writing]: Collected Essays from The New York Time. Henry Holt and Company (New York), 2001.

  • Untitled in Endangered: Your Child in a Hostile World, edited by Johann Christoph Arnold. Plough Publishing (Rifton, NY), 2000.

  • “In the Belly of the Beast” in Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader, edited by John Bradley. University of Arizona Press (Tucson), 2000.

  • “This House I Cannot Leave” and “Deadline” in Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, Pamela J. Annas and Robert C. Rosen. Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2000.

  • “Homeland” in My Favorite Fantasy Story, edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Daw Books Inc. (New York), 2000.

  • “Journeys” essay in “Three Minutes or Less.” Paris Review, edited by George Plimpton. The Paris Review (Flushing, NY), Winter 1999-2000.

  • “Deadline” and passages from The Poisonwood Bible in Sisters In Pain by L. Elisabeth Beattie and M.A. Shaugnessy. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 2000.

  • “Journeys” in Three Minutes or Less: Life Lessons from America’s Greatest Writers, by Pen / Faulkner Foundation. Bloomsbury Publishing (London), 2000.

  • “Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983” in Western Women’s Reader: The Remarkable Writings of Women Who Shaped the American West, Spanning 300 Years, edited by Lillian Schlissel and Catherine Lavender. HarperPerrenial (New York), 2000.

  • “How Poems Happen” in The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors, edited by Ntozake Shange. Beacon Press (Boston), 1999.

  • “Deadline” in A Map of Hope: Women’s Writing on Human Rights, edited by Marjorie Agosin. Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ, and London), 1998.

  • “Deadline” in The American Voice: Anthology of Poetry, edited by Frederick Smock. The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1998.

  • “Stone Soup” in Here and Now: Current Readings for Writers, edited by Gilbert H. Muller. McGraw-Hill (New York), 1998.

  • “Making Peace” in Intimate Nature: The Bond between Women and Animals, edited by Linda Hogan, D. Metzger, and B. Peterson. Ballantine (New York, NY), 1998.

  • “Knowing Our Place,” foreword for Off the Beaten Path: Stories of Place. Farrar Strauss (New York), 1998.

  • “A Woman’s Unease About the Men’s Movement” in Mastering the Art of Everyday Living. Utne Reader(Minneapolis, MN), 1997.

  • “Secret Animals” in Fish Stories Collective III, edited by Erin Fossett. WorkShirts Writers Center (Chicago), 1997.

  • “Letter to My Mother” in I’ve Always Meant to Tell You: Letters to Our Mothers, edited by Constance Warlow. Pocket Books (New York), 1997.

  • “A Mean Eye” in Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest, edited by Kathryn Wilder. Northland (Flagstaff, AZ), 1997.

  • “Quality Time” in Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood, edited by Katrina Kenison and Kathleen Hirsch. Farrar Straus & Giroux (New York), 1996.

  • “Creation Stories” in Getting Over the Color Green: Southwestern American Literature: An Anthology of Contemporary Environmental Literature from the American Southwest. University of Nevada Press (Reno, NV), 1995.

  • “Quality Time” in Mother, edited by Claudia O’Keefe. Pocket Books (New York), 1995.

  • “Stone Dreams” in ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories About Mothers and Daughters, edited by Geeta Lothari. Avon Books (New York), 1994.

  • “The Memory Place” in Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places, edited by Joseph Barbato. Pantheon (New York), 1994.

  • “Somewhere Under the Rainbow” in I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers, edited by Roger Rapoport and Marguerita Castanera. Book Passage Press (Berkeley, CA), 1994.

  • “Going to Japan” in Journeys, edited by PEN-Faulkner Foundation. Quill & Bush (Rockville, MD), 1994.

  • “Confession of the Reluctant Remainder” in Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude, edited by Dave Marsh. Viking (New York), 1994.

  • “Quality Time” in The Single Mother’s Companion: Essays and Stories by Women, edited by Marsha R. Leslie. Seal Press (Seattle, WA), 1994.

  • “Fault Lines” in Writers Harvest, edited by William H. Shore. Harcourt, Brace & Co. (Orlando, FL), 1994.

  • “Why I Am a Danger to the Public” in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West, edited by Craig Lesley. Laurel (New York), 1993.

  • “Rose-Johnny” in First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth, edited by John Loughery. Persea Books (New York), 1993.

  • “Why I Am a Danger to the Public” in New Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Recent Western Writing, edited by Russell Martin. Penguin (New York, NY), 1992.

  • “Deadline” in Peace Prayers: Meditations, Affirmations, Invocations, Poems and Prayers for Peace, edited by Carrie Leadingham, Joann E. Moschella, Hilary M. Vartanian. HarperSanFrancisco (San Francisco, CA), 1992.

  • “Cabbages and Kings” in Women Respond to the Men’s Movement: A Feminist Collection, edited by Kay Leigh Hagan. Pandora (San Francisco), 1992.

  • “Pizza Odysseus” in Padre Kino’s Favorite Meatloaf and Other Recipes from Baja Arizona. Community Food Bank of Tucson, 1991.

  • “Rose-Johnny” in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 1988, edited by S. Ravenel. Algonquin Books (Chapel Hill, NC), 1988.

  • Rebirth of Power: Overcoming the Effects of Sexual abuse through the Experiences of Others. Mother Courage Press (Racine, WI), 1987.