BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

Night Watch
Knopf |  September 2000 
Quiet Dell
Scribner |  October 2013
Lark & Termite
Knopf |  January 2009 
MotherKind
Knopf |  April 2000 

Shelter
Delta | August 1995
Fast Lanes
Vintage | May 2000
Machine Dreams
Vintage | November 1999
Black Tickets
Delta | April 1989

OUT-OF-PRINT/SMALL PRESS EDITIONS

The Secret Country
Palaemon Press Limited, 1982
How Micky Made It
Bookslinger Editions, 1981
Counting
Vehicle Editions, 1978
Sweethearts
Truck Press, 1976 & 1978

ESSAYS & ARTICLES

“Mothering My Mother”
Redbook, July 2000

“On Not Having A Daughter”
Mothers Who Think, essays from Salon, ed. Moses & Perri, Villard, 1999

“The Widow Speaks”
The Eleventh Draft, ed Frank Conroy, Norton,1999

“Why She Writes”
Why I Write, ed. Will Blythe, Back Bay Books, 1999

“Home After Dark: Letter from Paducah”
Harper’s Magazine, Spring ’99

“Callie”
Family: American Writers Remember Their Own (Pantheon,Fiffer)

“Numbers”
Communion:Contemporary Writers Reveal The Bible in Their Lives
Anchor, ed. Rosenberg

“Premature Burial”
Serialized in The New York Times

The Movie That Changed My Life:
Essays on Film by American Writers
Viking, ed. Rosenberg

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction
by Stephen Crane
with an Introduction by Jayne Anne Phillips
(Bantam Classic)

ANTHOLOGIES

Why I Write, (ed. Will Blythe, Back Bay Books, 1999)

The Eleventh Draft, (ed Frank Conroy, Norton, 1999)

The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop (Hyperion, 1999

American Short Story Masterpieces (Delacorte, Ed. Ray Carver, Tom Jenks)

Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (Norton, ed. R.V. Cassill)

Stories of the Modern South (Penguin, ed. Forkner/Samway)

Love Stories for the Time Being (Pushcart Press, ed. Chipps/Henderson)

New American Short Stories (NAL, ed. Gloria Norris)

American Wives (NAL, ed. Solomon)

Soldiers and Civilians: Americans At War and At Home (Bantam, ed.Jenks)

Deep Down: Sensual Writings by Women (Faber & Faber, ed. Chester) TheEsquire Fiction Reader (ed. Hills/Jenks)

The Ploughshares Reader (Pushcart Press, ed. Henry)

Matters of Life and Death (Wampeter Press, ed. Tobias Wolff)

The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best of the Small Presses, Vol. I, II, and IV

Stories About How Things Fall Apart And What Happens When They Do (Word Beat Press, ed.Wadman)

The O’Henry Awards, 1980 (Doubleday, ed. Abrahams)

Best American Short Stories, 1979 (Houghton Mifflin, ed. Joyce Carol Oates)

We Are The Stories We Tell: Best Stories by North American Women Since 1945 (Pantheon, ed. Martin)

Listening To Ourselves (Anchor, ed. Cheuse)

Reasons To Believe: New Voices In American Fiction (St.Martin’s)

The Norton Book of American Short Stories (Norton, ed. Peter Prescott)

Sudden Fictions: American Short Short Stories (Peregrine Press, ed.Shapiro)

New Women, New Fiction (NAL, ed. Cahill)

Between Friends (Houghton Mifflin, ed. Pearlman)

The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (ed. Raffel)

The New Writers of the South (Univ. Georgia Press, ed. East)

Images of Women In Literature (Houghton Mifflin, ed. Ferguson)

American Voices: A Thematic, Rhetorical Reader (Harper& Row, ed.Semeks)

The Granta Anthology of American Fiction (Penguin, ed. R. Ford)

The American Story: The Rea Award for the Story (NAL,ed. Cynthia Ozick)

Pegasen fran Prarien: Ny amerikansk prosa (Sweden)

New American Stories (Japan)

New Female Voices From America (Japan)

Love’s Theatre: Women’s Erotic Writing (UK, ed. Selsdon)

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (UK, ed. Reynolds)

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (UK, ed. Hermoine Lee)

FOREIGN PUBLISHERS

England: Faber & Faber until MotherKind, now Jonathan Cape

Denmark: Gyldendal Boghandel

Finland: Tammi

France: formerly Librarie Plon, now
Christian Bourgois

Germany: Berlin Verlag

Holland: Meulenhoff

Norway: Aschehoug

Spain: Editorial Seix Barrel SA (may change)

Sweden: Forum