His books include Waist Deep in Black Water, Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River, and Circling Home (all Georgia). He also coedited, with Gerald Thurmond, The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South (also Georgia). He has published several volumes of poetry and essays (with Mercer University Press and others), as well as a selection of his online columns, The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph.