Publications

Books by Alexis De Veaux

2023: JesusDevil: The Parables, AKA Press (Emergent Strategy, 8)

2014: Yabo, RedBone Press

2006: Warrior Poet, An Autobiography of Audre Lorde, W W Norton

1987: An Enchanted Hair Tale, Harper Collins

1986: Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday, Writers and Readers

1973: Na Ni, Harper Collins

1973: Spirits in the Streets, Anchor Press

Contributing Essays by Alexis De Veaux

2022: Feminist Studies, Vol.48 #1 “Celebrating forty years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some Of Us Are Brave” 

2021: The Sex Lives of African Women (ed Nana Dark Sekyimah)

2021: Mouths of Rain (ed. Briona Simone Jones)

2018: Sinister Wisdom 110, Dump Trump, Legacies of Resistance

2010: Conversations with Paule Marshall (ed. James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway)

2010: For the Crowns of Your Head: Poems for Haiti (ed. Poets for Ayiti)

2007: Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, & Transgender Writing (ed.  G. Winston James and Other Countries)

2007: We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon (ed. Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel)

2003: Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (ed. Rosemarie Robotham)

2002: Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction (ed. Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Donald Weise)

1997: does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (ed. Lisa C. Moore)

1997: Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (ed. Christian McEwen)

1996: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love (ed. Beatrix Gates)

1996: Street Lights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience (ed. DorisJean Austin and Martin Simmons)

1996: The Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems (ed. Clare Coss)

1995: Soul Looks Back in Wonder (Illustrated by Tom Feelings)

1995: Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (ed. Catherine E. McKinley and L. Joyce DeLaney)

1995: Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present (ed. Gloria Naylor)

1993: Lusitania 5 (translated into Serbo-Croatian)

1991: Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (ed. Mary Helen Washington)

1990: Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories by and About Black Women (ed. Mary Helen Washington)

1989: Obsidian II: Black Literature Review

1988: Gay & Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthology (ed. Carl Morse and Joan Larkin)

1983: Black Women Writers at Work (ed. Claudia Tate)

1983: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (ed. Barbara Smith)

1978-1995: Essence Magazine