Joan Downs has had many of her letters to the editor published in The Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, Isthmus, all in Madison, Wisconsin, and in other media. Her article, "William English Walling," was published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 345: American Radical and Reform Writers, Second Series, Ed. H. L. Furey, Gale Cengage, 2009, 322-333.
