NOVELS

Kinflicks
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1976.
• excerpts: Vogue, v.166, #2 (Feb., 1976).
• Cosmopolitan, v.181, #2 (Aug., 1976).
• New Dawn, v.2, #2 (July, 1977).
• Pulling Your Own Strings, ed. Gloria Kaufman and Mary Blakely, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
• The Best of Modern Humor, ed. Mordecai Richler, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
• A Southern Appalachian Reader, ed. Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb, Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1989
• Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Original Sins
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1981.
• excerpt: Harpers and Queen, (June, 1981).

Other Women
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984.

Bedrock
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990.

Birdman and the Dancer
• Amsterdam: Contact, 1993.
  
• Gyldendal: Copenhagen, 1993.
  
• Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1996.
  

Five Minutes in Heaven
• Dutton, 1995
• excerpt: Lane Series Program, Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, 1995.

Washed in the Blood
• Mercer University Press, 2011.

Swan Song
• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2020.

Kinfolks
• New York: Arcade Publishing, 2007.

About Women
• New York, Nan Talese Books, an imprint of Doubleday, 2015.

Meungeons On My Mind
• Presentation at 21st Melungeon Heritage Association Union 2017.
• Included in the September 2017 issue of VARDY VOICES, published by the Vardy Community Historical Society.

Introduction to Birdman and the Dancer

• English translation self-published, lisaalther.com, August 2021.

NON-FICTION

Blood Feud
• Lyons Press, 2012.

"Introduction," Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2019

STORIES

"Encounter"
• McCall's, v. 103, #11(Aug., 1976).

"Squeamish,"
• CLAYMORE, v.1, #2 (Oct., 1977), p. 7-14.

"Termites"
• Homewords, ed. Douglas Paschall and Alice Swanson,Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

"The Politics of Paradise"
• Louder Than Words, ed. William Shore, New York: Random House, 1989.

"Silver Moon Bay"
• By the Light of the Silvery Moon, ed. Ruth Petrie, London: Virago Press, 1994

"Stormy Weather"
• THE BEST OF THE BEST, ed. Elaine Koster and Joseph Pittman (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998), pp. 1-24.

"Wedding Belles"
• LONDON SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE, 1999, pp. 33-4.

"Eye of the Lord"
• IRON MOUNTAIN REVIEW, v. 27 (Spring, 2001), pp. 6-7.

"Fox Hunt"
• APPALACHIAN HERITAGE, v.32, #1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 13-22.

Stormy Weather & Other Stories
• Mercer University Press, 2012.

The Golden Tower: A Fairytale
• Self-published, lisaalther.com, November 2016.
• Journal of the Short Story in English, #72, Autumn, 2019, pp. 337-342.

"Gus Be Gone"
• trans. Daniel Verheyde, TOMORROW'S WORLD, ed. Suzanne Bray and Gerald Preher, Lille, France: FLSH-Universite Catholique de Lille, 2022.

• Vermont Freeman:
  
  
  • "Autumn Mood"
    Nov., 1971.
    
    
  • "Relevance in the Nursery"
    v.3, #24 (Dec., 1971)
    
    
  • "The French Connection"
    Feb., 1972
    
    
  • "Dandelion Wine"
    v.4, #6 (spring, 1972)
    
    
  • "A Candy Recipe"
    v.4, #12 (June, 1972)
    
    
  • "Things That Go Bump In The Night"
    v.4, #13 (July, 1972)
    
    
  • "Sufism: A Book Review"
    v.4, #17 (Sept., 1972)
    
    
  • "Ecology Fantasy"
    v.5, #15 (Aug., 1973)
    
    
  • "Finding Your Rhythm"
    v. 6, #6 (spring, 1974)
  
  
• "Organic Farming on Trial"
  Natural History, v.81, #9 (Nov., 1972)
  
  
• "Whole Food Cookery"
  Yankee, v.37, #4(Apr., 1973)
  
  
• "Mail Order Religion"
  New Society, v.27, #590 (Jan.24, 1974)
  
  
• "Vermont Coop Spins a Comeback for Wool"
  New Englander, v.21, #5 (Sept., 1974)
  
  
• "The Snake Handlers"
  New Society, v.34, #687 (Dec. 4, 1975)
  
  
• "The Melungeon Melting Pot"
  New Society, v.36, #706 (Apr.15, 1976)
  
  
• "A Forest Full of Fiddleheads"
  New Times, v.6, #10(May 14,1976)
  
  
• "They Shall Take Up Serpents"
  New York Times Sunday Magazine, (June 6, 1976)
  
  
• "Into the Melting Pot"
  Mankind, v.5, #9 (Oct., 1976)
  
  
• "Female Pen: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh"
  The Guardian, (London: Feb. 23, 1978)
  
  
• "Biorhythmic Blues"
  New Society, (Mar. 2, 1978), p.478
  
  
• "Joky Way to Wisdom"
  New Society, (June 15, 1978), p, 610
  
  
• "Tales from All Over"
  New York Times Book Review, (Oct. 21,1979), p.7
  
  
• "Will the South Rise Again?"
  New York Times Book Review, (Dec. 16, 1979), p.7
  
  
• Introduction, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor
  (London: The Women's Press, 1980.)
  --reprinted in Harpers and Queens (June, 1980)
  
  
• "Anna (I) Anna: A Novel by Klaus Rifbjerg"
  Denmarkings: Danish Literature Today, (Copenhagen, l982)
  
  
• "The Writer and Her Critics"
  The Women's Review of Books, (Oct., 1988), p.11
  
  
• "What I Do When I Write..."
  The Women's Review of Books, (July, 1989), p.24
  
  
• "Dear Old House: Sarah Orne Jewett"
  Art and Antiques, (December, 1991)
  
  
• "Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, by Francoise Gilot"
  Pleiades, v. 1, no. 1 (winter, 1991)
  
  
• "Dixie in the Blood: SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE by Nancy Lemann"
  Los Angeles Times Book Review, (July 19, 1992), p. 11
  
  
• "A Curator Leaves No Matisse Unturned"
  New York Times, (September 13, 1992), p.49
  
  
• "Fame and Misfortune: FEATHER CROWNS by Bobbie Ann Mason"
  Los Angeles Times Book Review, (October 24, 1993), p. 2
  
  
• "The Gods of Greece: A Review"
  Los Angeles Times Book Review, (May 8, 1994), p. 6
  
  
• "Mating Dances: THE GOOD HUSBAND by Gail Godwin"
  Boston Globe (August 28, 1994), p. 65
  
  
• "Another Kind of Victorian: SARAH ORNE JEWETT by Paula Blanchard"
  New York Times Book Review (November 20,1994) p. 25
  
  
• "A Sly and Funny Take on the Tabloid Age: ISABEL'S BED by Elinor Lipman"
  Boston Sunday Globe (March 5, 1995), p. 103
  
  
• "Struggling for Justice in a Savage Century: CHOICES by Mary Lee Settle"
  Washington Post Book World (June 4, 1995), p. 8
  
  
• "An American Teacher Liberates Her Chinese Students: KATHERINE by Anchee Min"
  San Francisco Chronicle (May 28, 1995)
  
  
• "Overlapping Stories in a Violent, Chaotic Time: THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Ellen Gilchrist"
  San Francisco Chronicle (April 30, 1995), p. 3
  
  
• "One Hundred Years Ago or More: THE GOD IN FLIGHT by Laura Argiri"
  Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review (Spring, 1995)
  
  
• "American Tragedies: WRONGFUL DEATH by Sandra Gilbert and DREAMING by Carolyn See"
  Women's Review of Books (July, 1995), p. 18
  
  
• "A Deep Voice of Authenticity: WATER FROM THE WELL by Myra McLarey"
  Washington Post Book World (Nov. 23, 1995)
  
  
• "Growing Up a Southern Writer"
  Southern Living (April, 1996).
  
  
• "McCullers' Columbus",
  TENNESSEE ENGLISH JOURNAL, v. 10 (Oct., 1999), pp. 6-9
  
  
• "Can the Novel Be Saved?"
  USA TODAY, v. 129, #2668 (Jan., 2001), pp. 66-9
  
  
• "Allegiances," IRON MOUNTAIN REVIEW, v. 23 (Spring, 2007), p. 58

• "The Shadow Side of Appalachia: Mildred Haun’s Haunting Fiction", APPALACHIAN HERITAGE, v. 36, #2 (Spring, 2008), pp. 30-38

• “One Afternoon in Vermont,” Journal of the Short Story in English, #72, Spring, 2019

• “The Death of Glamour,” End of the World Review, July 3, 2020