Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness. Oregon State UP.  2011.

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey.  Nebraska UP. 2010.
*first prize winner 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Contest
*shortlisted for 2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Book Awards
*finalist 2011 Washington State Book Award

Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging and the Crosscut Saw.  Oregon State UP.  2004.
*named a best book of 2004 by The Seattle Times

“Now Go Home.” In Telling Oregon’s Stories: The Oregon State University Press at 50.  Oregon State UP.  2011
“On the Spot: Toward a Glacier’s Edge.” In The Face of the Earth.  Edited by SueEllen Campbell. University of California Press. 2011. 
“La Linea.” (Reprint.)  In Telling it Real: The Best of Pilgrimage 2003-2008. Edited by Peter Anderson.  Pilgrimage Press. 2010.
“The Woman Who Gardens With Bears.” In Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North.  Edited by Michael Engelhard.  University of Alaska Press.  2009.
“Saw Chips in My Bra.” In A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild.  Edited by Jennifer Bove.  Traveler’s Tales/Solas House.  2006.
“A View from Teensy Town.” In City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary.   Edited by David Oates.  Oregon State UP. 2006.
“Fire Ban.” (Reprint.)  In Best Essays NW.   Edited by Guy Maynard and Kathleen Holt. University of Oregon Press.  2003

 

• “Crush.” Brevity.  Forthcoming.
  “The Right Trib.” High Country News.  Forthcoming.
  “Life List.”  Matter 14: Animal.  Forthcoming.
  “La Linea.” (Excerpt.) Smokebox.net.  Forthcoming.
  “When We Talk About Courage.” Cirque, Winter 2011
  “The Boss and the Lawn.” Bellingham Review, Autumn 2011
  “Slide.” Mountain Gazette, October 2011
  “Don’t Forget.” (Excerpt.) Portland, Autumn 2011
  “Saw Chips in My Bra.” (Excerpt.)  Oregon Quarterly, Autumn 2011.
  “Pass the Populism.” (Excerpt.) Utne Reader, Sept. / Oct. 2011.
  “Gone Native.”  Greenwoman: A Literary Garden, Summer/Fall2011.
  “Just Right Here.” (Reprint.) Breckenridge Magazine, Summer 2011.
  “Breathe.” Inlandia, Summer 2011.
  “A fire lookout in the wilderness speaks of our past.” Writers on the Range, July 7, 2011.
  “Winter Flood.”  Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments 27: Entropy, Spring/Summer 2011.
  “The Sign Maker.” High Country News 43.6  April 18, 2011
  “Slow Connection.” Smokebox.net 60, Spring 2011.
  “Re-Entry.” Mountain Gazette 175, January 2011.
  “Snapped.” Mountain Gazette 174, December 2010.
  “Grace Behind Glass.”  High Country News 42.19, November 8, 2010
  “Erosion.” Matter 13: Edward Abbey, June 2010
  “Spawning in Mud.” (Reprint) Writing Nature, 2010. 
  “Drive That Hummer.”  High Country News 42.2, February 1, 2010.
  “Spawning in Mud.” Watershed 7, Spring/Summer 2009.
  “Christmas Naked.” Mountain Gazette 162, December 2009.
  “Living on Glacial Time.” High Country News 41.16, Books and Essays Issue, September 14&28 2009.
  “Caucus.” North American Review 294.3-4, May-August 2009.      
  “The Dictionary Reader.” High Country News 41.14, August 17, 2009.
  “The Seam.” Under the Sun, Volume XIV, No. 1, Summer 2009.
  “Just Right Here.” Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2009.
  “Natural Comfort.” High Country News 41.10, June 1, 2009.
  “The Fall Line.” Mountain Gazette 151, February 2009.
  “Real Work.” High Country News 40.21, November 10, 2008.
  “The Beatles Drive,” The Rambler, September/October 2008.
  “The Lost Art of Backyard Cloning.” Mountain Gazette 145, July 2008.
  “Staying Put.”  High Country News 40.4, March 3, 2008.
  “Hello Kitty Rules.” Mountain Gazette 138, December 2007.
  “Word Share.” Oregon Quarterly, Winter 2007.
  “Sand-Calloused Places.” Mountain Gazette 135, September 2007.
  “Thirteen Percent Catholic.” Pilgrimage 32.1, Spring 2007.
  “Erasing the Stone.” Mountain Gazette 127, October 2006.
  “What’s Heaven without a Gate?”  Weber Studies, Spring/Summer 2006.
  “Lost and Found.” Mountain Gazette 120, January 2006.
  “This, Jack London Reminded Me.”  Mountain Gazette 118, October 2005.
  “Potluck.” Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest, Volume 8 Issue 1 2005.
  “La Linea.”  Pilgrimage 30.2, Summer 2005.
  “The Temperature of Water.” Oregon Quarterly, Winter 2004.
  “Children of the Woods.” Weber Studies, Fall 2003.
  “Everywhere But Here.” Orion, July/August 2003.
  “Long Distance.”  Sport Literate, Father’s Issue, Summer 2003.
  “Fire Ban.” Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2002.
  “Red Tape and Yellow Stickies.”  Fine Homebuilding, Spring/Summer 2002.
  “Knocking it Back.”  Backpacker, May 2002.
  “Now Go Home.”  Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest, Volume 3 Issue 2 2000.
  “Doing Without.” (Reprint) Utne Reader, July/August 2000.
  “Doing Without.”  Orion, Winter 2000.
  “The Tourists in my Yard.” Talking River Review, Winter 1998.
  “Writing in Place: An Interview with Pam Houston.”  Thin Air, 4, 1998.
  “Wilderness, Homelessness, and the Crosscut Saw.” Kinesis, March 1997.

• “How the World is Made New.” In Stories From Where We Live: Pacific Northwest Coast.  Edited by Sara St. Antoine.  Milkweed Editions.  Forthcoming.   
  “To the Top of the Word.” ColumbiaKids,  2011.
  “Under the Churn.”  Driftwood, Fall 2008.
  “If, in 1934, Everett Ruess Had Not Disappeared.”  Black Ridge Review, Spring 2004.
  “The History Tutor.”  Writers Forum, Volume 28, 2002.
  “Explanation of Benefits.”  Cimarron Review, Winter/Spring 1999.
  “Where the Springboard Set.”  West Wind Review 17th Anthology, 1998.
  “Like the Astronauts Did When They Landed on the Moon.”  Kinesis, April 1997.

• North Cascades National Park Service Complex Fire Management Plan. 2005.
              Geological Points of Interest in the Stehekin Valley. Written by David Bean. Edited by
  Ana Maria Spagna, Tim Manns, Patricia Bean.  Northwest Interpretive
  Association. 2001.
  Lake Chelan and the North Cascades. Written by Mike and Nancy Barnhart.  Edited by
  Ana Maria Spagna.  Bridge Creek Publishing. 2000.
  Buckner Homestead Historic District: A Self-Guided Walk.  Written and Illustrated by      
  Renee Hudak.  Edited by Patty Bean, Tim Manns, Ana Maria Spagna, and Nicky Leach.  Northwest Interpretive Association. 1998
  Writing in Forestry: A Report to the President.  Northern Arizona University, 1997