Non-fiction picture book biographies •
Working Moms: A Portrait of their Lives (six of seven books in the career series from 1990 to 1991) • ''Georgia's Bones'', illustrated by Bethanne Andersen (about
Georgia O'Keeffe), 2005 •
Music for the End of Time (about
Olivier Messiaen), 2005) •
Call Me Marianne, illustrated by David A. Johnson (about
Marianne Moore), 2006 •
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (2008) •
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (2013) •
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (2014) •
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille, illustrated by Boris Kulikov (2016) •
Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson, illustrated by Cannaday Chapman (2019) •
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball, illustrated by Frank Morrison (2020) •
Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX, illustrated by Toshiki Nakamura (2022) •
Foote Was First! How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change, illustrated by Amy June Bates (2026)
Middle-grade and young adult biographies •
Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the Everglades, illustrated by Larry Raymond (1992) •
Margaret Murie: A Wilderness Life, illustrated by Antonio Castro (1993) •
Louis Braille, Inventor (1994) •
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist (1995) •
Lucretia Mott: A Guiding Light (1996) •
Thomas Merton: Poet, Prophet, Priest (1997)
Novels in verse •
The Trial (2004) •
Pieces of Georgia (2006) •
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial (2008) •
Kaleidoscope Eyes (2009)
Novels in prose •
The Fortune of Carmen Navarro (2010)
Poetry •
The Whole Measure (chapbook), Greyhounds Press, 2006 •
Hand Crafted (chapbook), Nova House Press, 2001 • Individual poems published in
American Literary Review,
Clackamas Literary Review,
Paterson Literary Review,
Poet Lore,
Smartish Pace,
Comstock Review,
The Pittsburgh Quarterly,
Journal of NJ Poets,
Northeast Corridor,
Schuylkill Valley Journal, and others.
Magazines and anthologies Bryant's poems and articles have appeared in
Highlights magazine and
Image, and others. Her work is anthologized in
Rush Hour: A Journal of Contemporary Voices (Delacorte Press);
You Just Wait,
The Poetry Friday Anthology;
The Poetry Anthology for Middle School (all Pomelo Press); and
One Minute Till Bedtime (
Little, Brown).
Translations and adaptations Several children's books by Bryant have been translated into Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew.
Six Dots, her biography of inventor
Louis Braille, is available in a print braille edition.
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin was adapted for the stage by the
Seattle Repertory Theatre. ==Awards and honors==