Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short-story collection, three novels set in the American Southwest and nineteenth-century Mexico, and a collection of essays. She teaches creative writing at workshops and programs in Washington state and elsewhere, including Seattle University, the University of New Mexico and Richard Hugo House.

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
2019
ISBN 9781781085783
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
2023
ISBN 9781786188571
Sharp & Sugar Tooth
2019
ISBN 9781937794880
Spirits of the ordinary
1997
ISBN 9780156005685
Hotel Angeline
2011
ISBN 9781453215326
The deepest roots
2016
ISBN 9780295999388
Black Cat Weekly #53
2022
ISBN 9781667640310
The flower in the skull
1998
ISBN 9780811819169
The Desert Remembers My Name
2007
ISBN 9780816547968
Why Stars Burn
2025
ISBN 9798986614694
Mrs. Vargas and the dead naturalist
1992
ISBN 9780934971256
Treasures in heaven
2000
ISBN 9780810120365
Stealing Light : A Raven Chronicles Anthology
2018
ISBN 9780997946857
Seattle Noir