Books

• Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning, University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 
• Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė, University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
• Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout, University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 

Translation

• “And I burned with shame”: The Testimony of Ona Šimaitė, Righteous Among the Nations. A Letter to Isaac N. Steinberg. Search and Research 10. Ed. Dan Michman. Trans. of archival documents from Russian, with an introduction. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2007.

Select Essays

• “There Be Monsters” Passages North. A "Notable" in Best American Essays, 2018. This essay contemplates an archival map and what it means to be descended from an accused war criminal.
• “In Praise of Slim Volumes: Big Book, Big Evil,” Assay. An essay that examines and reads very short books of nonfiction or the book-length essay.
• “Pregnant Pause: On Šimaitė, Archives,Writing and Motherhood,” Feminist Formations. This piece tells of a love triangle of sorts between a mother, her baby, and her biographical subject. It ponders the riddle of how to be both a mother and a writer.
• “My link to the past is gone,” The Globe and Mail. An elegiac essay on the passing of a beloved maternal grandmother.