Non-Fiction
- Craft, Criticism, and Teaching “Productivity: Finding Time to Make Time,” Spalding MFA Faculty Blog, January 2020.
- “Laura and Rose and Nancy and Emily: Two Women Writers Talk Prairie Fires,” Prairie Fires Readalong, Chapter 12 (a conversation with Emily Anderson), Beyond Little House, February 2019.
- “Beauty in Imperfection,” Spalding MFA Faculty Blog.
- “From ‘Unlearned Poet’ to ‘Untutored Housewife’: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Samuel Worthen Ingalls,” Little House on the Prairie Website, Ed Friendly Productions, May 2016.
- “Laura Ingalls Wilder and Samuel Worthen Ingalls: Discovering the Roots of Favorite Childhood Books in Cuba, NY,” Ploughshares Online, May 2016.
- “Why Clogging is not Blogging and Blogging is not Clogging,” Pitt-Bradford Bloggers, March 2016.
- “One Mean Bad Kid: A Week as a Writer in the Schools in South Carolina,” Spalding MFA Faculty Blog, December 2015.
- “Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Artistic Development,” Little House on the Prairie Website, Ed Friendly Productions, September 2015.
- “My Role Model is a Roll of Toilet Paper: Writing with Passion and the Limits of Machines,” MFA Spalding Faculty Blog, May 2015.
- “Rereading Childhood,” nancymccabe.net
- “On Not Killing Off Your Characters,” Spalding University MFA Faculty Blog, January 2014.
- “The Importance of a Title,” Spalding University MFA Faculty blog, March 2011.
- Crossing the Nonfiction Line: Autobiographical Fiction and Fictionalized Memoir in Voices de la Luna, October 2013.
- “Creating a Community Atmosphere,” Teaching Times, University of Pittsburgh,March 2008.
- “Glory, Glory Hallelujah, Teacher Hit Me with A Ruler: Subversive Children’s Songs, Gender and Violence,” Studies in Popular Culture, April 1998, 71-82.
- Making Poems: Writing Exercises for the Classroom. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 1988. 83 pages.
Fiction
- After the Coma at The Citron Review, December 2013.
- “Lucy’s House,” Lincoln Review, Summer 1997, 72-87.
- “Knotted Links,” Green Hills Literary Lantern, Spring 1992, Volume 4, 5-13.
- “Flight,” A Necessary Scavenger. Little Rock: Words, 1991, 111-123.
Poetry
- “Spinning Daughter,” Literary Mama, September 2020.
- “Cave Hill Cemetery,” The Louisville Anthology, Rust Belt Publishing, Fall 2020.
- “Seneca Falls, Halloween Weekend 2016,” Nelle.
- “Eclipse,” Westchester Review, Spring 2020.
- “Blue Marble,” reprinted in From Newborn Stars to Old Woman Moon, December 2019.
- “Blue Marble,” Gyroscope Review, Fall 2019.
- “Mammogram Follow Up,” Harpur Palate, Fall 2018.
- “Haunted,” Spillway, Summer 2018.
- “Independence,” 3Elements Review, Summer 2018.
- “Waiting to Adopt,” Touched by Adoption, Santa Barbara, CA: Green River Press, 1999, 201.
- “Abandoned Music,” Earth’s Daughters, 1994, Volume 43/44, p. 79