Novels

• A Student of Weather (2000) McClelland & Stewart ISBN 0771037899
• Garbo Laughs (2003) McClelland & Stewart
• Late Nights on Air (2007) McClelland & Stewart

Short Story Collections

• Small Change (1997) The Porcupine's Quill

Short stories

• “The Friend” (in Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Jane Urquhart, 2007, Penguin Canada)
• "Jet in England", Ottawa Magazine summer fiction issue, Jul/Aug 2007
• "The Food of Love", Ottawa Citizen, Holiday Edition, 2008
• "Of Mattresses and Men", Ottawa Magazine summer fiction issue, July/Aug 2008
• "Last Poems", The New Quarterly, Spring 2009
• "City as Redhead", The New Quarterly, Spring 2009

Non-fiction

• Crossing the Shadow Line (1989) Black Moss Press
• The Only Snow in Havana (1992) Cormorant Books
• Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (1993) New Star Books
• Only Snow in Havana (2008) Cormorant Books

Essays

• “Ten Beauty Tips You Never Asked For” (in Dropped Threads 2, edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, 2003, Vintage Canada)
• "The Most Fearless Book I Read", (in The Book I Read, edited by Peder Zane, 2004, Norton)
• “My Debt to D.H. Lawrence” (in Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life, edited by Constance Rooke, 2006, McClelland & Stewart)

Anthologies

• Short Fiction, an Anthology, edited by Rosemary Sullivan and Mark Levene, Oxford University Press, 2003
• The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction, Penguin, 2008
• Best Canadian Essays 2010, Tightrope Books, 2010

• 1997 Finalist, Governor General’s Award for Fiction (for Small Change)
• 1997 Finalist, Rogers Communication Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for Small Change)
• 1997 Finalist, Trillium Book Award (for Small Change)
• 2000 CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction
• 2000 Finalist, Giller Prize (for A Student of Weather)
• 2000 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (for A Student of Weather)
• 2000 TORGI Award
• 2002 Marian Engel Award (Writers’ Trust of Canada)
• 2003 Finalist, Governor-General’s Award for Fiction (for A Student of Weather)
• 2003 Ottawa Book Award (for Garbo Laughs)
• 2007 Giller Prize (for Late Nights on Air)