Her debut novel American Spy was published by Random House in February 2019 in the US and in July 2019 in the UK via Dialogue Books.
[1] She was a 2013 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer's Fellow, and has received support from both the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
American Spy received praise ahead of its release and was a Spring 2019 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” pick.
Michael Schaub, writing for NPR, called it an "expertly written spy thriller" and a "deeply intelligent literary novel",[4] highlighting its discussion of challenging topics about politics and social dynamics, and The Washington Post's Maureen Corrigan said that it was "extraordinary in a lot of ways".
[8] Wilkinson splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, to work as a screenwriter for television shows near Hollywood.