As a freelance journalist, Joan Wilder has written hundreds of pieces that run the gamut from the hardest of hard news stories—fires, kidnappings, politics—to the most narrative of non-fiction features: travel stories, essays, and profiles. Her work has appeared in many magazines and daily newspapers, including the Boston Globe (she wrote weekly for the paper for more than a decade), and the Patriot Ledger, where she was a regular contributor with a beat for many years. She wrote “The Dish,” a food column for Boston.com and reviewed hundreds of Boston-area restaurants for the Local section of the Globe (until the pandemic put an end to that). She’s ghostwritten books and authored many other types of pieces: grants, press releases, book proposals, corporate newsletters, website copy, reference book histories, and narrative biographies. She is the author of the tiny book Help for Women with ADHD: My Simple Strategies for Conquering Chaos.