[4] Her debut middle grade novel, Riverland, won the 2019 Andre Norton Award, was named an NPR Best Book of 2019[5] and was a Lodestar Finalist.

Her fiction explores themes of social class, disability, disruptive technology, and empowerment against a backdrop of engineering and artisan culture.

She then went on to earn a MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1996[8] and a master's degree in information architecture and interaction design from the University of Baltimore in 2001.

[8] Prior to publishing, Wilde worked as a sailing instructor, a jeweler's assistant, a teacher and professor, and a web and game developer.

The audio drama was a twelve episode series that followed the fictional story of two companies competing to bring artificial intelligence to Mars.