“Emergence,” forthcoming in High Desert Journal. 2022.

“Ode to Rain,” The Gulch. 2021. https://www.gulchmag.com/home/ode-to-rain 

“The Truth I Cannot Tell,” Fugue Literary Journal, Kim Barnes Prize runner-up. https://fuguejournal.com/news/winners-kim-barnes-prize. 2021.

“Disappointment Was What I Needed: An Interview with Kathryn Wilder” by Rebecca Lawton, Terrain.org, https://www.terrain.org/2021/interviews/kathryn-wilder/. 2021

“Lunar Red,” High Desert Journal, https://www.highdesertjournal.org/kathryn-wilder-lunar-red. 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Best American Essays 2021 Notable Essay.

“Withdrawal,” Torrey House Press’s “That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in the Time of Pandemic.” https://www.torreyhouse.org/single-post/2020/04/22/That-Thing-with-Feathers-Hope-and-Literature-in-a-Time-of-Pandemic. 2020.

“Sex on Slickrock,” New Millennium Writings Musepaper. https://musepaper.org/2019/sex-on-slickrock-by-kathryn-wilder/. 2019. Winner, Musepaper Essay Prize

“The Weight of It,” Contra Viento‘s “Open Range.” https://contravientojournal.org/the-weight-of-it/. 2019.

“Getting Ready,” Deserts: The First Five Years of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize. Waterston Desert Writing Prize finalist. 2019.

“Grounded,” High Desert Journal. https://www.highdesertjournal.com/copy-of-28-10. 2019.

“October,” River Teeth‘s “Beautiful Things.” https://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2019/02/18/october. 2019.

“Fubar,” The Southwest Anthology: The Best of the Writing Programs. Texas A & M University Press. 2017.

“An Outsider Inside Denali National Park and Preserve,” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/dena/getinvolved/air-wilder.htm. 2017.

“Where hope, science and mustangs meet,” High Country News “Writers on the Range.”  http://www.hcn.org/articles/pzp-where-hope-science-and-mustangs-meet. January 5, 2016.

“Sundance,” Southern Indiana Review, Volume 16, Number 2. Evansville, IN: The University of Southern Indiana. Spring 2015. T. A. Wilhelmus Editors’ Award finalist. Best American Essays 2016 Notable Essay.

“Holding,” River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things.” http://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2014/09/29/holding. September 29, 2014.

“White Sugar,” Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ’60s & ’70s. She Writes Press. 2013. Edited by Kate Farrell, Linda Joy Myers, & Amber Lea Starfire

“In Security,” Midway Journal. http://midwayjournal.com/in-security/. May 1, 2013.

“Night Crawlers,” River Teeth, Volume 14, Number 2. Ashland, OH: AshlandUniversity. Spring 2013

“Afraid of the Dark,” Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative. Petaluma, CA. Fall 2012. Second place prize winner.

“Canyon Metaphor,” Grand Canyon Trust News. Flagstaff, AZ.Grand Canyon Trust. 2012. http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/news/2012/07/2489/

“An Odd Coupling,” Grand Canyon Trust News. Flagstaff, AZ.Grand Canyon Trust. 2011.       http://www.gcvolunteers.org/stories/2011/10/an-odd-coupling

“The Last Cows.” Fourth Genre, Volume 10, Number 1. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, Michigan State University. Spring 2008. Winner, Editor’s Prize for Best Essay/Memoir. Best American Essays 2009 Notable Essay.

“Stones and Jawbones,” What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2007. Edited by Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, & Paula Stallings Yost

“So Close to the Wild,” Bugle, 2000

“Glen Canyon Dam,” Earth First! Journal, 2000

“The Grace of Geese,” American Nature Writing 2000. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press. 2000. Edited by John A. Murray

“Looking Up,” American Nature Writing 1999. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press. 1999. Edited by John A. Murray

“Looking Up,” Sierra, 1997. Write on the Wild Side winning essay.

“River Words” in Standing Wave. Prescott, AZ. 1997.