Writing Wilder: Adding to a Deep Map of Place
Kathryn Wilder Instructor
In honor of Ellen Meloy, Writing Wilder will focus on place, the senses, and the Colorado Plateau, where Bluff sits at the heart. With the intention of adding to Ellen’s deep map of place as well as to the texture of your own home place, we’ll focus on our surroundings and memories. You need only bring a favorite journal, writing implements, your creative mind, and a camp chair.
About Kathryn Wilder: Kathryn Wilder received the Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers in 2023. Her memoir, Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West (Torrey House Press, 2021) won a Colorado Book Award, Nautilus Book Award, and others, and was a finalist for the Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers in 2016. Wilder has an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives among mustangs and cows in southwestern Colorado. Her next book, The Last Cows, will out in 2025.