“Lunar Red,” High Desert Journal, https://highdesertjournal.squarespace.com/kathryn-wilder-lunar-red/. 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“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.
