* The Rice Mother (1993)
* Across the Roofs of the World (1998)
* Daughters of the Ocean (2003)
* Across a Green Field (2006)
* Island Baby (2008)
* Secrets of the Tides (2011)
* No Land's Daughter (2014)
* Digging Roots (2020)
Non-fiction:
* The Blind Woman's Balls: A memoir of love and loss (2018)
Poetry:
* Across a Green Field (1996)
* Islands of the Heart (2001)
* Between the Tides (2004)
* Under the Mango Tree (2007)
* Secrets of the Tides (2011)
* No Land's Daughter (2014)
* Digging Roots (2020)
Short stories:
* The Rice Mother (1993)
* Across the Roofs of the World (1998)
* Daughters of the Ocean (2003)
* Across a Green Field (2006)
* Island Baby (2008)
* Secrets of the Tides (2011)
* No Land's Daughter (2014)
* Digging Roots (2020)
Anthologies:
* New Canadian Writing (1993)
* Best Canadian Stories (1994, 1995, 1996)
* The Journey Prize Anthology (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
* The Danforth Review (1998)
* The Malahat Review (1999)
* The Fiddlehead (2000)
* The New Quarterly (2001)
* The Antigonish Review (2002)
* The Canadian Author (2003)
* The Literary Review of Canada (2004)
* The Dalhousie Review (2005)
* The Malahat Review (2006)
* The Fiddlehead (2007)
* The New Quarterly (2008)
* The Antigonish Review (2009)
* The Canadian Author (2010)
* The Literary Review of Canada (2011)
* The Dalhousie Review (2012)
* The Malahat Review (2013)
* The Fiddlehead (2014)
* The New Quarterly (2015)
* The Antigonish Review (2016)
* The Canadian Author (2017)
* The Literary Review of Canada (2018)
* The Dalhousie Review (2019)
* The Malahat Review (2020)