As Editor or Contributor

Books edited by David Bowles

• Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Río Grande Valley (2011)
• Along the River 2: More Voices from the Río Grande (2012)
• Along the River III: Dark Voices from the Río Grande (2014)
• Donna Hooks Fletcher: Life and Writings (2012)

Books containing work by David Bowles

• Sing Me a Story: Latine Short Stories in Verse, edited by Aída Salazar (October 2025)—the short-story-in-verse “Magic in the Grooves”
• All the Love under the Vast Sky, edited by Kip Wilson (January 2025)—the short-story-in-verse “Borrowed Blossoms”
• A Treasury of Traditional Tales (September 2024)—the story “Sisimites”
• On the Block: Stories of Home, edited by Ellen Oh (October 2024)—the story “Ángel Navarro”
• We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels, & Other Creatures, edited by Rob Costello (May 2024)— the story “The Freedom of Feathers and Fur”
• In Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories, edited by Sandra Proudman (February 2024)—the short story “This Mortal Coil”
• Reclaim the Stars: Seventeen Tales Across Realms & Space (February 2022)—the short story “The First Day of Us”
• Living Beyond Borders: Growing up Mexican in America (August 2021)—the short story “The Body by the Canal”
• Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America (October 2020)—the short-story-in-verse “A Border Kid Comes of Age”
• Where the Veil Is Thin (July 2020)—the story “The Storyteller”
• Castle of Horror Anthology, Volume Two (2019)—the story “On the Second Day of Christmas”
• Castle of Horror Anthology, Volume One (2019)—the story “The Goblin House”
• The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce (2019)—“7 Things I Would Tell 11-year-old Me”
• A Larger Reality 2.0: A Timeline in Which We Don’t Go Extinct—the story “When the Sky Fell”
• A Larger Reality: Speculative Fiction from the Bicultural Margins—the story “Aztlan Liberated”
• Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (2018)—the poem “Night Axe”
• Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book (2017)—the poem “Border Kid”
• Texas Weather: An Anthology of Poetry, Short Fiction, and Nonfiction (2016)—the poems “Borderland Sky” and “La gente en junio”
• Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (2016)—the poem “Braided Soul”
• Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers (2016)—the story “Shrine”
• Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems (2016)—the poem “Potter at Chaco”
• An Amazing Eclectic Anthology (2016)—the poems “Crawlspace,” “A thing enskied,” and “Nepantlero”
• Star Quake 3: SQ Mag’s Best of 2014 (2016)—the story “To Brave the Mountains”
• Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance (2015)—the poem “Por la libre”
• Twenty (2014)—the poem “Kintsukuroi”
• Strange Texas Tales That Never Die Volumes 1-4 (October 2014)
• ¡Juventud! Growing up on the Border (2013)—the story “Oscar and the Giant”
• Pasta, Poetry & Vino Chapbook (2013)—the poem “A Mexica Woman Addresses Her New Son-in-Law”