A world within a world. I have just read these words when the dogs bark. Both of them. Serious barking. They only do this when there is something serious to bark at, so I leap up and feel a burn in my knee and then the cold of outside on my bare legs, hoping the serious … Continue reading →

I am close to getting my manuscript turned in to publisher Torrey House Press. (How can I say that calmly? This is HUGE. I’ve been working on it for YEARS. My thesis of the same name (Desert Chrome) was turned in to thesis committee chair Lidia Yuknavitch and reader Chip Livingston nearly three years ago. Since then … Continue reading →

This is a small excerpt from the forthcoming (in a year) Desert Chrome, because twenty-eight years ago now, as in today and tonight and tomorrow, this happened: Sonoran Desert 1992. Scott’s driving me south through the desert, to Tucson, to treatment. I try to write, journal in my lap, pen in my grip; I try to … Continue reading →

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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