Books

Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness
Oregon State University Press, April 2011

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: a Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey
University of Nebraska Press, 2010 (Click here to buy the book)

• Book review, The Oregonian
• An interview with Dave Beck on KUOW in Seattle

Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging and the Crosscut Saw. 
Oregon State University Press.  2004.

View a recent reading from Potluck (Juneau Library, 2011):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jm2REwI-qM&feature=related

Recent Short Essays

“Breathe” from Inlandia
http://inlandiajournal.org/2011/08/11/ana-maria-spagna/

“The Boss and the Lawn” from Bellingham Review
http://www.bhreview.org/piece/the-boss-and-the-lawn/

"Winter Flood" at Terrain.org with audio http://www.terrain.org/essays/27/spagna.htm

"Grace Behind Glass" from High Country News http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.19/grace-behind-glass

"Re-Entry" from Mountain Gazette
http://www.mountaingazette.com/mountain-notebook/re-entry/

Visit Ana Maria's blog (“Wet Wool”) at the Mountain Gazette
http://www.mountaingazette.com/blogs/wet-wool/

Anthologies

"Glacier's Edge"
The Face of the Earth
Edited by SueEllen Campbell. University of California Press. 2011. 

"La Linea"
Telling it Real: The Best of Pilgrimage 2003-2008.
Edited by Peter Anderson. Pilgrimage Press. 2010.. 

“The Woman Who Gardens With Bears.”
Wild Moments: Adventures with Animals of the North. 
Edited by Michael Engelhard.  University of Alaska Press. 2009.

“Saw Chips in My Bra.”
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.”
City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary.  
by David Oates.  Oregon State UP. 2006.

“Fire Ban.”
Best Essays NW.   
Edited by Guy Maynard and Kathleen Holt.
University of Oregon Press.  2003.

Test Ride was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.

“Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus stands as a magnificent testament and tribute to the lives of many people—Ana Maria Spagna’s parents, the many patriots of the Civil Rights Movement, and the citizens of communities far and wide, large and small. Her surprising story renewed my awe in the interconnectedness of all of our lives and affirmed that the current championing of hope in our country is a hope deserving of all its fervor.”

—Kathleen Finneran, author of The Tender Land: A Family Love Story

Even to readers for whom a day of manual labor in cold, mud and rain sounds like the least appealing activity on Earth, the scope and sincerity of these 18 essays will make you laugh, think and appreciate your heated home and they lead you to a fine and quiet place.

--The Seattle Times