• What Penelope Chooses, Cider Press Review, 2019
  • Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems), Mayapple Press, 2010
  • Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2005
  • Manchu Palaces: a novel, Henry Holt, 1995, 1996, (also on tape by Susan Clark, Audio Literature)
  • Bronze Mirror, Henry Holt, 1991
  • Silk Road: a novel of Eighth-century China, Henry Holt, 1989
  • Engendering the Word: Feminist Essays in Psychosexual Poetics (coeditor), University of Illinois Press, 1989
  • Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao (translated by Larsen), Princeton University Press, 1986
  • James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, University Press of Virginia, 1979, 1980