• 1989 American Book Award for the novel The Ultraviolet Sky
• PEN Oakland fiction award, 1994, for the novel "Naked Ladies"
• Latin American Book Award, New York, for poetry, "Planet"
• 1976-1977 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize

• The Ultraviolet Sky, republished with Doubleday, 1993. ISBN 0-385-42014-5
• Life Span (Place of Herons Press, 1985)
• Blood Root (Blue Heron Press, 1977)

Anthologies

• Jose Gurpegui, ed (2009). Camino Real. Universidad de Alcala- Madrid, Spain. ISBN 18895611
• "Pembroke Magazine, Number 40" (University of North Carolina, 2008)
• Susan Koppelman, ed (2003). Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across Generations. The Feminist Press. ISBN 9781558614598
• Burleigh Muten, ed (1999). Her Words: Anthology of Poetry About The Great Goddess. Shambhala. ISBN 9781570624735
• Burleigh Muten, ed (1997). Return of The Great Goddess. Stewart, Tabori, Chang. ISBN 9781556706081
• (reprint 2008)
• Janine Canan, ed (1989). She Rises Like The Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women. Crossing Press. ISBN 9780895943538
• (reprint HarperPerennial, August 1993, ISBN 0060965177)