Kathryn Wilder's award-winning memoir, Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, will be followed by a second book of creative nonfiction, The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart, forthcoming from Bison Books in November 2025. With an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Wilder writes, cowboys, and lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado. She won the 2025 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Magazine Article.