June Writer’s Night: Writing Sense, a Conversation with Kathryn Wilder
June 2026 Writer's Night
Our senses inform us. They can also inform the reader. In this conversation, we will pull examples from Wilder’s work—and from your own. Please feel free to bring short (one sentence or less) samplings of writing from the senses. We will share these, and, time permitting, create some new samples to take home.
Join the WCWF for this fun, interactive session with author Kat Wilder on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, from 6-7:30 p.m. at The Art Center in Grand Junction, 7th and Orchard.
Speaker Bio
In Kathryn Wilder’s The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart, she reveals her ranching past (and more), chronicles the impact of cattle on our desert lands, and raises questions about how seventy and cattle mix. Booklist says in a starred review that Wilder is “fearless in her prose and perspective.” This has won her a Colorado Book Award, Western Heritage Award, Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, Nautilus Book Award, and more. With an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Wilder writes, cowboys, and lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.