Writer
About
Emma Hudelson is a nonfiction writer living in Indiana with her daughter, husband, dog, cat, and horse. Her book Sky Watch: My Obsession With America's Greatest Show Horse will be out in 2023 with the University Press of Kentucky. Her work appears in BUST, the Chattahoochee Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she writes regularly for Saddle & Bridle. Emma is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's Ph.D. program in creative writing. She teaches in the core curriculum at Butler University and runs Writing for Wellness workshops in Indianapolis and beyond.
Sky Watch: My Obsession With America's Greatest Show Horse
Spring 2023, University Press of Kentucky
In 1979, a young trainer from Danville, Kentucky took on a two-year-old American Saddlebred colt so wild, he had to be herded into his stall like a bull. No one expected Sky Watch to win a World Grand Championship title, but by the end of his career, he trotted away with five. Sky Watch: My Obsession with America's Greatest Show Horse weaves the rise of one special horse into the narrator's own story with the American Saddlebred, a breed that's now in decline. Saddlebreds might have saved her, but can she save the Saddlebred? Sky Watch is about change, legacy, and the love between human and horse.