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The Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, an agency of the federal government of Mexico, has contracted with Beth Alvarez to edit a volume of Porter's non-fiction works about Mexico for publication in its series Mirada Viajera (Traveller's View or Foreigner's Account of Mexico). An editorial program of the Departamento de Sciences Sociales in the Direccion General de Publicaciones of the Consejo, the first volume of the series, Charles Macomb Flandrau's Viva Mexico!, was published in 1994 with an introduction by Magarita Carbo and translation by Victoria Schussheim.

The volume, tentatively entitled Escritos sobre Mexico de Katherine Anne Porter, will include about thirty of Porter's pieces on Mexico published between 1920 and 1955. The volume's format will be similar to Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter, which Alvarez edited with Thomas F. Walsh. It will include a general introduction and head notes for each piece. The pieces to be included will be drawn from Uncollected Early Prose, "This Strange, Old World" and Other Book Reviews by Katherine Anne Porter, and The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. The Consejo has also expressed an interest in publishing Spanish language editions of a collection of Porter's fiction as well as Walsh's Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico: The Illusion of Eden.