About
Kathryn Wilder's The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman's Heart (Bison Books) is out! Slated for a November 1 release, it is hitting bookstores in the Southwest now, and follows Wilder's first memoir, Colorado Book Award winning Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West. Her essays, including Best American Essays notables, have appeared in The Missouri Review, Terrain.org, High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere, and have earned her an American Heritage Award and Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, among others. With an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Wilder writes, cowboys, and lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.
Featured Work
The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman's Heart
“In Kathryn Wilder’s new offering, The Last Cows, there are cows, several kinds of cows. . . . What I didn’t expect was an ecological journey of fine attunement to the land, to the elements, to the living inhabitants of the ranch area, and a penetrating spiritual awareness that can happen with the grueling everyday work that it takes to care for and run a cattle ranch in Disappointment Valley.”—Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), twenty-third U.S. poet laureate
Other Works
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Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West
2021
Awards and Recognition
- American Heritage Award. Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. Colorado Book Award. Nautilus Book Award. Sarton Women’s Book Award finalist. The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize runner-up. DOWNING Journalism Award finalist. Terrain.org, 13th annual nonfiction contest finalist. Fugue Kim Barnes Prize runner-up.
