Career
Poetry
* Lullaby for sinners. Pinnacle Books. 1981.
Memoir
* Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir. Graywolf Press. 2006.
Anthologies
* Bill Mohr, Sheree Levin, ed. (1985). Poetry Loves Poetry: An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets. Momentum Press.
* The Best American Short Stories 1991
* William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1992). Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
* Gerald W. Haslam, ed. (1999). Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State. University of Nevada Press.