Ravenel is primarily celebrated as an editor. Her bibliography consists of the anthologies she edited.
As Editor
- 1986-2006 — New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best — Annual volumes
- 1990 — The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties
As Series Editor
- 1978-1990 — The Best American Short Stories — Annual volumes, each with a different guest editor
“Best of” Retrospective Anthologies
- 2005 — Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South
- 1996 — Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South
Essay
- “’I Want You to Think about Something’: Louis D. Rubin Jr. and the Establishment of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.” Southern Review 38 (Autumn 2002): 704–11.