Kathryn Wilder
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| Bio: | Kathryn Wilder's essays have appeared in such publications as River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Southern Indiana Review, High Country News, Sierra, and many Hawai`i magazines. A 2017 graduate of the low-rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she lives among mustangs on the Colorado Plateau, where she and her family raise Criollo cattle. All their cows are named. |
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Holding My sister and I live on either side of sixty. We've been mothers half our lives. Visiting her in Oregon, Ashland, running a steady hundred degrees for days into weeks, we head to Lake of the Woods for the coolness of lake water and wind in the pines. Winding up the mountainside and back through our lives, our four children are never far from our conversation, like our own childhood—childhood, singular, as we shared it, for better or worse, till death do we part. One minute I'm driving my sister's Honda Fit through the forest; the next instant something bounces from the trees onto the road in front of me like a basketball, and that color, and stops. Read More |
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Holding (repeat) My sister and I live on either side of sixty. We've been mothers half our lives. Visiting her in Oregon, Ashland running a steady hundred degrees for days into weeks, we head to Lake of the Woods... Read More |
