Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey. Nebraska UP. 2010.
*first prize winner 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Contest
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging and the Crosscut Saw. Oregon State UP. 2004.
*named a best book of 2004 by The Seattle Times

“Erosion.” Matter 13, the Edward Abbey issue, June 2010
“Spawning in Mud.” (Reprint) Writing Nature, 2010.
“Drive That Hummer.” High Country News, January 18, 2010.
“Spawning in Mud.” Watershed 7, Spring/Summer 2009.
“Christmas Naked.” Mountain Gazette 162, December 2009.
“Glacier’s Edge.” In The Face of the Earth. Edited by SueEllen Campbell. Forthcoming.
“Living on Glacial Time.” High Country News, Books and Essays Issue, September 14&28 2009.
"Caucus." North American Review. May-August, 2009.
“The Dictionary Reader.” High Country News, August 17, 2009.
“The Seam.” Under the Sun, Volume XIV, No. 1, Summer 2009.
“Just Right Here.”  Oregon Quarterly.  Forthcoming Summer 2009.
“Natural Comfort.”  High Country News.  Forthcoming.
"The Fall Line." Mountain Gazette 152, February 2009.
“The Woman Who Gardens With Bears.” In Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North.  Edited by   Michael Engelhard.University of Alaska Press.  March  2009
“Real Work.” High Country News, 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, 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, Spring 2007.
“Erasing the Stone.” Mountain Gazette 127, October 2006.
“What’s Heaven without a Gate?”  Weber Studies, Spring/Summer 2006.
“Saw Chips in My Bra.” (Reprint) in A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild.  Edited by Jennifer Bove.  Traveler’s Tales/Solas House.  2006.
“Lost and Found.” Mountain Gazette 120, January 2006.
“A View from Teensy Town.” In City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary.   Edited by David Oates.  Oregon State University Press. 2006.
“This, Jack London Reminded Me.”  Mountain Gazette 118, October 2005.
“Potluck.” Open Spaces: Views from the Northwest, Volume 8 Issue 1 2005.
“Saw Chips in My Bra.”  Out There Monthly, June 2005.
“La Linea.”  Pilgrimage, 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.” (Reprint) in Best Essays NW.   Edited by Guy Maynard and Kathleen Holt. University of Oregon Press.  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.   
  
• “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.

• Winner River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Contest 2009
  Winter Fishtrap fellowship 2009
  Washington State Artists’ Trust Grants for Artists Program (GAP) Award 2005
  
• First-place Out There Monthly essay contest 2005
  
• Nominated for Pushcart Prize for “Potluck” 2005
  
• Now Go Home named a Best Book of 2004 by the Seattle Times
  First-place Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives essay contest 2002
  
• First-place Kinesis magazine If It Moves essay contest 1996
  
• Second-place Flagstaff Live short fiction contest 1995
  
• Stanley B. Greenfield Essay Award, University of Oregon 1989
  
• Honors College Freshman Essay Award, University of Oregon 1985

• “Solutions at Home.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment biennial conference.
  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. June 2009.
  “Writing About Work.”  Montana Festival of the Book. Missoula, Montana.  October 2008.
  
• “Stories of Home.”  10th Annual Thunder Arm Writing Retreat.  North Cascades Institute.  Diablo, Washington.  August 2008.
  
• “Peeling Back: The Movement toward Honesty in the Personal Essay.”  Write on the River Conference.  Wenatchee, Washington.  May 2008.
  
• “Where Stories Converge.”  8th Annual Thunder Arm Writing Retreat.  North Cascades Institute.  Diablo, Washington. 
  October 2006
  
• “Nature and Boundaries.”  Wordstock Festival of the Book.  Portland, Oregon.  April 2005.
  
• “Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment.”  Northern Arizona Book Festival.  Flagstaff, Arizona.  April 2004.
  
• “We Write Short Shorts.”  Creative Writing Panel.  Language Text and Society Conference.  Northern Arizona University.  May 1997.
  
• “The Pedagogical Usefulness of Locating Place at the Heart of Narrative.”  Panel Presentation .  Southwest Symposium. 
  University of New Mexico.  March 1996.
  
• “Magic Empowerment: Marvelous Reality in Tracks by Louise Erdrich and The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier.”  Revisiting Literature:  From the Middle Ages to the Present.  Arizona State University.  March 1995.