Elizabeth Alexander has authored, co-authored, or edited the following books:

• The Light of the World: A Memoir (2015)
• American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice (2011) [with Sherman Alexie and Linda Hogan]
• Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 (2010)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (2007)
• Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color (2007) [with Marilyn Nelson]
• American Blue (2006)
• American Sublime: Poems (2005)
• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (2005) [Edited by Elizabeth Alexander]
• The Black Interior: Essays (2004)
• Antebellum Dream Book (2001)
• Body of Life: Poems (1997)
• Venus Hottentot: Callaloo Poetry (1990)