Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories (Arte Público Press, 2023)
The Curse of the Gypsy: Ten Stories and a Novella (Arte Público Press, 2018)
[Un]framing the "Bad Woman": Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause (Univ. of Texas Press, 2014)
Calligraphy of the Witch (Arte Público Press, 2012)
Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition" (University of Texas Press, 2011)
Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera (University of Texas Press, 2010)
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (Arte Público Press, 2005)
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave, 2003)
La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras Movidas (Arte Público Press, 2003)
Sor Juana's Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999)
Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition (University of Texas Press, 1998)
The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories (Bilingual Review Press, 1993)
"Beggar on the Cordoba Bridge ," Alicia's first collecon of poems in Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry (Bilingual Press, 1989)