Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of The New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise, which was one of NPR's Best Books of 2016. She received a 2018 Whiting Award, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017, and was the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize in 2016. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, Esmé lives in San Francisco.
In residence, she worked on a draft of her third book (a second novel). In 2016, Wang won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for the essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias, which was published in 2019. Wang was named by Granta to be one of the Best of Young American Novelists in 2017 and won a Whiting Award in 2018.
