2002: Elli Köngäs Maranda Prize from the Women's Section of the
American Folklore Society, for Chicana Traditions: Change and Continuity (co-editor and contributor)
2002: American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, Race in the College Classroom (contributor)
2003: Américo Paredes Prize, American Folklore Society
2003: Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature of the
Modern Languages Association
2020. meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self Adornment and Identity Construction,University of Texas Press
2020. Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa: Pedagogies and Practices for our Classrooms and Communities,Co-editor with Aída Hurtado. University of Arizona Press.
2019. Cabañuelas: A Love Story.Co-editor with Margaret Cantú Sánchez and Candace De Leon Zepeda University of New Mexico Press.
2019. Meditación Fronteriza: Poems of Life, Love and Work, under review, University of Arizona Press
2016. Co-editor with Inés Hernández Ávila, Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature and Art. 2016.
2016. Entre Malinche y Guadalupe: Tejanas in Literature and Art. Co-edited with Inés Hernández Ávila, University of Texas Press
Co-editor with Rita Urquíjo Ruiz, The Plays of Silviana Wood. University of Arizona Press
2015. Translator: Borderlands/La Frontera. Universidad Autónoma de Mexico
2015. Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera—Updated 20th Anniversary Edition, University of New Mexico Press
2014. Diálogo Special Issue: Poetry, co-edited with Juana Goergen
2013. "Los Tecolotes," in ¡Arriba Baseball! A Collection of Latino/a Baseball Fiction. VAO Publishing.
2012. Moctezuma’s Table: Rolando Briseño’s Mexicano and Chicano Tablescapes, Texas A&M University Press
2011. Paths to Discovery: Autobiographies of Chicanas with Careers in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
2010. El Mundo Zurdo: Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2007 & 2009, Co-Editor. (Aunt Lute Books)
2010. Inside the Latin@ Experience: A Latino Studies Reader, co-edited with Maria Franquiz (Palgrave/Macmillan)
2009. Dancing Across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. Co-edited with Olga Nájera-Ramírez and Brenda Romero. University of Illinois Press.
2009. Prietas y Güeras: Proceedings of the First Conference on the Life and Work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Co-editor. San Antonio, TX: Adelante Project.
I embroider borders.... Poetry book, limited edition. Southwest School of Arts and Crafts.
2006. Editor. Flor y Ciencia: Chicanas in Mathematics, Science and Engineering. AAAS Adelante Project.
2001. Co-editor with Olga Najera Ramírez. Changing Chicana Traditions, University of Illinois Press.
2001. Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Co-editor with the Latina feminist Group. Individual pieces included: "Getting there cuando no hay camino," "A Working Class Brujas Fears," and two poems: "Migraine" and "Reading the Body." Duke University Press.
2000. Santuarios: Program Essay. The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Rockefeller Gateways Program Performance.
2000. "Realidad Fronteriza" in Cariatides.
2000. "Police Blotter," Colorado Review.
1999. Canícula: Imágenes de una niñez fronteriza. Houghton Mifflin Co.
1999. "Diamond," A Quien Corresponda, Revista Literaria, Cd. Victoria, Tamps.
1998. "Tino" and "Perpetuo Socorro," in Aztlán in Viet Nam, University of California Press.
1998. "Capirotada" in Stirring Prose, Texas A&M Press. 1998.
1998. "Adios en Madrid," Proyecto Scheherazade, electronic journal.
1998. "El luto," in Ventana Abierta.
1998. "Decolonizing the Mind" and "Trojan Horse" in Floricanto Sí: U.S. Latina Poetry. New York: Penguin.
1997. Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, paperback edition.
1997. "Bailando y Cantando," short story, "Las diosas," "Decolonizing the Mind," and "Fiestas de diciembre," poems in Blue Mesa Review, number 9, University of New Mexico.
1996. "Letters Home/Letters from Home," sporadic column of poetry and prose in the monthly LareDOS.
1995. "Tino" and "Papi," in In Short. Judith Kitchen and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. New York: Norton.
1995. Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Winner,
Premio Aztlán Literary Prize.
1994. "Nebraska Family: A Triptych," Nebraska Humanist.
Chapters 42–44 from Canícula and "Action, Thought, Spirit"(poem) in Prairie Schooner.1992 *"Snapshots of a Girlhood en la frontera," in The Texas Humanist.
"Se me enchina el cuerpo al oir tu cuento", short story. New Chicano/a Literature, University of Arizona Press.
1983. "Unemployed", poem, Huehuetitlan.
1983. "Untitled", poem, Huehuetitlan.
Book reviews
2015 Letters to the Poet from his Brother, in Aztlán
2010 There Was a Woman, in Journal of Folklore Research
2005 Homegirls in the Public Sphere in National Women's Studies Journal
1995 "Fiesta, fe, y cultura," in American Folklore Society Journal.
1995 "Carry Me Like Water" in The Washington Post, Book World.
Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Norma Elia Cantú. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (
Trinity University Press, 2008).