- _The Great Wall of Lucy Lu and Other Stories_ (1991)
- _American Adobo: Stories from the Philippines_ (1994)
- _The Family Chao_ (1997)
- _Disallow Ancestry: Poems_ (2000)
- _Wild Cows: An Asian American Tale_ (2002)
- _Almost Tropical_ (2005)
- _Oriental Groove_ (2010)
- _The Eve Of The Spirit Festival_ (2016)
- _Mama, Mama, Who Got the Monkey?_ (2019)
Non-fiction
- _Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography_ (1991)
- _Asian American Art_ (1993)
- _Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation_ (1994)
- _The Routledge Encyclopedia of Asian American Studies_ (2013)
Children's Books
- _The Fortune Cat's Wish_ (2002)
- _The Chinese New Year Dragon Dance_ (2003)
- _The Monkey King_ (2005)
- _The Jade Rabbit_ (2007)
- _The Magic Mirror_ (2009)