Non Fiction / Prose in Chronological Order

On My Journey Now , 2007

The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni, New York : Perennial, 2003

Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions Nikki Giovanni Editor, 1999

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems, 1996

Grand Mothers: A Multicultural Anthology of Poems, Reminiscences and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Tradition, Nikki Giovanni Editor, 1994.

Racism 101, William Morrow, 1993, 1994

Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler, Nikki Giovanni Editor with Cathee Dennison, Pocahontas Press, 1991.

Images of Blacks in American Culture: A Reference Guide to Information Sources, Nikki Giovanni Editor  with Jessie Carney Smith, Greenwood , 1988

Sacred Cows and … Other Edibles, William Morrow, 1988

Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, Penguin, 1976

A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker, Howard University Press, 1974

Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, New York:Viking, 1973

A Dialogue between James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni,  Lippincott, 1972

Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on my First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet.  Bobbs - Merrill, 1st edition, 1971

Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices, Nikki Giovanni Editor, Medic Press, 1970