Textbooks
- Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (1999)
- Keywords in Creative Writing (2006), with Wendy Bishop
- Creative Writing: An Introduction to Poetry and Fiction (2013)
- Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students (2015)
- Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (2008; 2013; 2017; 2021)
- Hello, Writer (2021)
Anthologies
- Teaching Writing Creatively (1998)
- Smokestacks and Skyscrapers (1999), with Richard Guzman
- In Praise of Pedagogy (2000), with Wendy Bishop
- Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001)
- In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (2005), with Paul Willis
- Living Blue in the Red States (2007)