I learned that Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West was a finalist in the Best Book Awards’ “Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction” and “Nonfiction: Creative” categories. A wonderful honor! http://americanbookfest.com/nonfictionbooks/animalspets.html Continue reading →

I awake into memory of another dark morning, a large growth in my belly rising and falling as if with its own life, the room quietly active, a doctor swooshing in and out, a nurse, a husband somewhere, my friend Cindy on her way, my mother with my firstborn, Kenney, back at the ranch, me … Continue reading →

https://www.terrain.org/2021/interviews/kathryn-wilder/ Please click on the link above for a stunning, full-color interview by Rebecca Lawton, complete with (some) photos by TJ Holmes. Things keep getting better for Desert Chrome! Continue reading →

This week was a whirlwind of mustang activity, at least for me, at least in a symbolic albeit sedentary way (sitting on my butt but not on a horse). On Saturday, October 23, we celebrated the ten-year anniversary of NO ROUNDUPS IN SPRING CREEK BASIN, and the fifty-year anniversary of the unanimous signing of the … Continue reading →

From Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West Detritus: Sierra Nevada, 1971. October light leaks in between slats of graying barn wood. A yellow stripe marks Craig’s cheek, his shoulder. I taste salt and smell the sun on his skin and in the hay beneath me that makes our bed in the … Continue reading →

Aloha all– I am having difficulties with my computer and blog, but I wanted to let you know about my forthcoming workshop in Bluff. It is on Saturday, October 16, from 1-4 pm, beside the flowing San Juan River and its shedding cottonwoods trees. Please wade through whatever you find below to register. Thank you! … Continue reading →

While I was at the Elk River Writers Workshop https://elkriverwriters.org in Pray, Montana, this interview by Traci Halesvass of Write-on 4 Corners aired: https://ksje.podbean.com/e/write-on-four-corners-august-18-kat-wilder-desert-chrome-water-a-woman-and-wild-horses-in-the-west/ Continue reading →

Torrey House Press has nominated Desert Chrome for a PEN Literary Award—thank you, Torrey House!!! Continue reading →

https://www.authorsguild.org/the-writing-life/member-spotlight-kathryn-wilder/ Continue reading →

Some days just seem like days. But they’re not. They are birthdays and wedding days and anniversaries and death days. And anniversaries of those. These days happen all over the world, in all time zones, all the time. Today, in my little world, Walt turned three. His father brought him up to cow camp to … Continue reading →