Authors: Sandra L. Ballard
YA
Moccasin Tracks
(New York: Dodd Mead, 1958)
F
Fiddler's Fancy
(Chicago: Follett, 1955)
NF
Blue Ridge Country
(New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942)
NF
Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky
(New York: H. Holt, 1939; rpt. New York: Oak Publications, 1964)
NF
The Traipsin' Woman
(New York: Dutton, 1933)
NF
Devil's Ditties: Being Stories of the Kentucky Mountain People
(Chicago: W.W. Hatfield, 1931; rpt. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976)
P
Thoughts While Swinging a Wild Child in a Green Mesh Hammock: Poems of Rebirth from the Bootheels of Appalachia
(London, Ky.: Janze Publications, 1991), with a foreword by Jim Wayne Miller
P & F
License My Roving Hands: Poems and Stories
(Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, 2000)
P & F
Ransom Street Quartet: Poems and Stories
(Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, 1995)
P
Four Contemporary Poets: Sharon Olds, Eleanor Wilner, Maddie Gomez, Juanita Tobin
(Flushing, N.Y.: La Vida Press, 1984)
F
Genesis Road
(unpublished novel-in-progress)
P
Light and Sound
(M.F.A. thesis, UNC-Greensboro, 1987)
YA
Flea Circus Summer
(New York: Orchard, 1997), the first book in the Venola Mae series, all set in West Virginia
F
Danger Downriver
(New York: Viking, 1972)
YA
Belle Prater's Boy
(New York: Farrar, 1996) Newberry Honor Book
YA
Weeping Willow
(New York: Farrar, 1992) ALA Best Book for Young Adults
YA
Sweet Creek Holler
(New York: Farrar, 1988)
F
Water Street
(London: Toby Press, 2002)
F
Blackberries, Blackberries
(London: Toby Press, 2000)
F
The Heart of a Thirsty Woman
(New York: Scribner, 1999)
F
Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones
(New York: Scribner, 1996)
F
For the Major, A Novelette
(New York Harper, 1883), set in western N.C. in 1860s
P
Take in My Arms the Dark: Poems
(Abingdon, Va.: Sow's Ear Press, 1999)
F
Salt
(New York: Picador, 2002)
P
Oriflamb
(Asheville: Groves Print, N.C. Writers Network, 1987)
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