Kathryn Wilder

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Dolores, CO
Colorado US
Email: 
wilderwaters@earthlink.net
Website: 
wilderhorses.live

Author's Bio

Kathryn Wilder’s Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West is  a Colorado Book Award, Silver Nautilus Book Award, and National Indie Excellence Award winner. Wilder's essays, cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in such publications as Terrain.org, High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies and Hawai‘i magazines. Winner of the 2023 Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers, Wilder holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.

Education: 
Institute of American Indian Arts MFA in Creative Writing MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (University of Texas Press, 2007)
,
American Nature Writing 2000 (Oregon State University Press, 2000)
,
American Nature Writing 1999 (Oregon State University Press, 1999)
,
Walking the Twilight II (Northland Press, 1996)
,
Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest (Northland Press, 1994)
Book:
Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West (Torrey House Press, 2021)
Journals:
Bugle: A Journal of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
,
Earth First
,
Fourth Genre
,
Hana Hou!: The Magazine of Hawaiian Airlines
,
High Desert Journal
,
Midway Journal
,
River Teeth
,
Sierra
,
Spirit of Aloha: The Magazine of Aloha Airlines
Prizes won: 

2023 Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers;

2022 Colorado Book Award, creative nonfiction;

2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award, memoir;

2022 National Indie Excellence Awards, regional nonfiction: West;

May Sarton Award finalist

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Ellen Meloy Linda Hogan, David James Duncan, Joe Wilkins, Joy Harjo, Rebecca Lawton, Brian Doyle
What I'm reading now: 
Sun House by David James Duncan

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
At Risk Youth, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Seniors, Women
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Berkeley, CA
California
Raised in: 
Bay Area, Kaua‘i, Maui, CA
California
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Last update: Jan 25, 2024