At the encouragement of her mentor, playwright Chiori Miyagawa, Wilson applied for and won a New York Theatre Workshop fellowship in 1998.

[9] Her episode of NBC's Do No Harm aired on August 18, 2013, and she was later staffed on the FX drama series The Americans, for which she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in 2015.

[12] In 2019, Wilson teamed up with playwright and television writer Bash Doran to write an episode of Channel 4's Traitors.

[citation needed] However, Wilson chose to stay with her television home, and signed an overall deal with FX in 2018.

[13] In 2019, Wilson joined other WGA members in firing her agents as part of the Guild's stand against the ATA after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement on a new "Code of Conduct" that addressed the practice of packaging.