- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1992)
- Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape (1995)
- An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (1995)
- Leap (2001)
- Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (2001)
- The Open Space of Democracy (2004)
- Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008)
- When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice (2012)
- The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks (2016)
Audio Books
- The Transformative Power of Art, New Dimensions (2000)
- Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Sounds True (2009)