Books

Laegreid, Renee and Leisl Carr Childers, editors. Sandoz Studies Volume 3: Confronting Fascism in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House. University of Nebraska Press. In production.

Laegreid, Renee, Leisl Carr Childers, and Margaret Huettl, editors. Sandoz Studies Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of Little Bighorn. University of Nebraska Press, 2024. Winner of the 2025 Western Non-Fiction Will Rogers Medallion Award.

Fiege, Mark, Lansing, Michael, and Carr Childers, Leisl, editors. Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024.

Orsi, Jared, Everett, Derek, and Leisl Carr Childers, editors. The American West Program at 50: Celebrating a Half Century of Innovation & Inclusion in Art & History at Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO: Center for Literary Publishing, 2023.

Carr Childers, Leisl. The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Winner of the 2016 Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction.