My book, Desert Chrome, will be published by Torrey House Press in the spring of 2021 (!). Here he is, the inspiration: mustang stallion Chrome, photo by TJ Holmes. If only my words can do him justice… Continue reading →

1) Perhaps one of the “publications” of which I’m most proud, from the Nov/Dec 2019 issue of Poets & Writers: 2) When “Sex on Slickrock” was published (https://musepaper.org/2019/sex-on-slickrock-by-kathryn-wilder/), I was asked to give advice to aspiring writers. Here it is: From one aspiring writer to another: Write often, go to workshops, write; meet other writers, fall … Continue reading →

From TJ: In the spirit of birthdays, my cousin Nancy Park sent this to me today, taken at Helen Park Bigelow’s 75th birthday party on Maui: And this, my sister Terry and me at our mother’s 85th birthday party last year in Truckee, also taken by Nancy. (I must have done something that embarrassed my … Continue reading →

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A brief exchange with Amy M. (Auker) Hale, who has authored several books set in the West and wrote this beautiful essay, “Feet to the Fire” (link), got me to thinking. When I told her that I ranch, too, Amy offered that she is not a rancher, she cowboys for a living. “That’s better than cowboying … Continue reading →

CONTRA VIENTO is a new online journal “for art and literature that seeks to understand rangelands in all their varied forms.” The “Open Range” column offers “more frequent postings of art and writing from rangelands and the American West.” Here you will find my words and TJ Holmes’s photo of Pretty’s calf, the lovely little … Continue reading →

  Twenty-five years ago, Rebecca Lawton and I appeared together in an anthology, Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest (Northland Publishing, 1994). I worked as an editor at Northland, my desk a mess of manuscripts set beside the biggest picture window I have ever seen, where ponderosa pines grounded me through glass as I … Continue reading →