"A raw and honest journey of addiction, love, trauma, and redemption--grounded in a deep love of place and all things mustang."
--LAURA PRITCHETT, author of Stars Go BlueKathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of wild mustangs as she makes a home on the Colorado Plateau on property bordering a BLM mustang management area. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures--their plight, what they mean to us, and what can be done to help both habitat and horses stay healthy and wild--and celebrates the animal nature in us all. KATHRYN WILDER's essays have been listed as Notable in The Best American Essays and have appeared in such publications as High Desert Journal, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Southern Indiana Review, High Country News, Sierra, many Hawai'i magazines, and more than a dozen anthologies. She is a past finalist for both the Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writers' Award and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize. A graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.