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entwines with the story of America's mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures - their complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid West - and celebrates the animal nature in us all. 's work, cited in Best American Essays and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies and Hawai'i magazines. A past finalist for the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Wilder holds an MA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
About the Author
Kathryn Wilder's Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West is a 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award and National Indie Excellence Award winner, and finalist for a Colorado Book Award. Her essays, cited in Best American Essays, have appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Sierra, and many anthologies and Hawai'i magazines. A 2022 finalist for the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers Award, and past finalist for the Waterston Desert Writing Prize as well as earlier Ellen Meloy Fund awards, 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.
