- This Is Memorial Device (1999)
- Parallax (2011)
- Field Recordings: Selected Nonfiction (2017)
Chapbooks:
- The Dizzying Infinite: Poems (1995)
- Suture (2000)
- A Gloss on Earth: Poems (2004)
- The Ghosts' Return: Poems (2006)
- Pilgrimage: Poems (2009)
- The Room: A Poetic Sequence (2012)
- The Way Back: Poems (2015)
Edited Works:
- The Art of the Essay (2003)
- The Best American Essays 2004 (2004)
- Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Anthology (2006)
- The Writer's Presence: A Global Anthology of Innovative Creative Nonfiction (2007)
- The Essayists: A Celebration of 200 Years of the Literature of the Essay (2009)
- The Book of Form: A Handbook of Poetic Forms (2011)
- The Best of the Best American Essays (2012)
- The Cambridge Companion to Creative Nonfiction (2013)