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KATHRYN WILDER
KATHRYN WILDER’s work, cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies. Wilder is editor of Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest volumes I and II and co-author with Redwing T. Nez of the children's book Forbidden Talent. A past finalist for the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Wilder holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.
BEHIND THE BOOK
An interview with Kathryn Wilder about the making of her book Desert Chrome: Water, A Woman, and Wild Horses in the West (COMING SOON!)
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Water, A Woman, and Wild Horses in the West
Kathryn Wilder's personal story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of America’s mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures—their complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid West—and celebrates the animal nature in us all.
"Lyrical and vivid . . . an homage to the wildness and beauty of the West."
—DURANGO HERALD
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