[6] Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Tin House, TriQuarterly, Nimrod, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.

Often capturing life in Oklahoma,[7] Askew’s work handles themes of place,[8] outsiders, religion and politics, greed and ambition, race, and women’s lives.

[15] In this historical novel, as in her other works, some critics have discussed how Askew offers the strong presence and prominence to the Other as a corrective to a-historic and romanticized visions of the American southwest.

"[25] Her fourth novel, Kind of Kin (2013), is set in Cedar, Oklahoma and focuses on state immigration laws, race, religion, and class.

Her latest novel Prize for the Fire, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in October 2022, follows the 16th century Protestant martyr Anne Askew, one of the first women writers in the English language.

[32] Author Pamela Erens calls it "a deeply sensitive and ambitious act of historical imagination," noting that "the struggles of this sixteenth-century protagonist echo in our own contemporary battles over women’s voices and bodily autonomy.