[2][3][4] His debut novel The Interloper, published by Other Press in 2007, grapples with themes of family, crime, and revenge through the lens of an unreliable narrator.
[10][11][12][13][14][15] In The New York Times Book Review, Adam Ross noted a shift in Wilson's focus: "If The Interloper was about lighting the way to hell, to paraphrase Milton, here the author's gaze is directed heavenward, toward sanity and the good in all of us.
[22] Wilson's short fiction has appeared in A Public Space, The Paris Review, Storyquarterly, Quarterly West, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as Best New American Voices 2001.
In 2001, he was awarded the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
[28] In 2017, Panorama City won the inaugural San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction from the Friends of the Library at California State University, Northridge.