Upcoming! "Subsidance," a short story in The New Orleans Review Dec. Issue. 2011.
Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Cork University Press, 2010. Foreword by John Elder.
To Everything on Earth: New Writings on Fate, Community, and Nature. Texas Tech University Press, 2009. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Starred review in Publishers Weekly.
The Sacred and Sublime: Caves in American Literature. Dissertation.
“What We Leave Behind.” What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest. Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore. University of Texas Press, 2007. Winner of the 2008 WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction.
“Tales from the Deep: Mammoth Cave & American Literature.” Journal of Kentucky Studies, 2005.
“The Edge of the World: Feminist Geography and Literature.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2004.
“‘Sympathy between man and nature’: J.M. Synge and Riders to the Sea” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2004.
“Artistry of Hunger: Desire and Appetite in Desert Solitaire.” Western American Literature, 2004.
“King Lear as the Green Man.” The Explicator, 2002.
“Gecko Toes and Spider Holds” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature & the Environment, 2005.
“The Edge of the World.” Organization and Environment, 2001. Full text reprinted in Reconstuction.
“Blasts and Repercussions.” Petroglyph: A Journal of Creative Natural History Writing, (Isotope) 1997.
“Shadows of Twilight.” Southwestern American Literature, 1995.