"Authority, Details, and Intimacy: Southern Appalachian Women in Robert Morgan's Family Novels" (Southern Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2010)
"The Authentic Reader: An Interview with Robert Morgan" (The Carolina Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 2-3, 2004)
"Bricking the Text: The Builder in Robert Morgan's Mountain World" (Southern Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2010)
"The 'Rush toward the Horizon': The Geography of Land and Language in Robert Morgan's Recent Poetry" (Southern Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2010)
"Robert Morgan's Alchemy: Listening to Time and Space" (Southern Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2010)
"Food as Commodity and Metaphor in Gap Creek: The Making of Julie" (Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2004)
"Feminist Forgiveness in Robert Morgan's "'The Trace'" (Southern Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2010)
"Robert Morgan's Mountain Voice an Lucid Prose" Book Chapter in An American vein: critical readings in Appalachian literature, 2005.
"Larry Watson's Montana 1948 and Euroamerican Representation of Native/Euroamerican History" (Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 61 No. 1, Spring 2007)
"Larry Watson: 'I'm working the dark side of lake Wobegone.'" (Interview) (Publisher's Weekly, Vol. 242, No. 4, January 1995)
"Hearts in Conflict: Larry Watson weaves fine novels from emotional tension" (The Writer, Vol. 117, No. 7, July 2004)
"Searching For a New Story to Inhabit: Larry Watson's Montana 1948 and the Dilemma of the Postmodern American West." (Heritage of the Great Plains, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1999)