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.