Hi, friends, I'm ESMÉ (PRONOUNCED EZ-MAY)
Possesses no chill
New York Times bestseller
Glamour adorer
Taiwanese American
Helps creative writers to find their own success
I’m a writer and essayist—the author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias (2019), as well as the novel The Border of Paradise (2016), which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2016 and one of Electric Literature’s Top 25 Novels of 2016; I was selected by Granta for their once-a-decade Best of Young American Novelists list of 21 authors under 40. I’ve also made appearances on the Today Show, NPR’s Weekend Edition, KCRW, the New York Times, the CBC, Flavorwire, and the New Yorker Online.
I'm also the founder of The Unexpected Shape, which provides online education for creative writers living with limitations, as well as personal development resources for ambitious people living with limitations.
I am...
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Representation
LITERARY AGENT
JIN AUH, THE WYLIE AGENCY
JAUH@WYLIEAGENCY.COM
SPEAKING REPRESENTATION
Trinity Ray, The Tuesday Agency
trinity@tuesdayagency.com
Office: 319-338-7080 • Mobile: 319-400-9031
PUBLICITY
publicity@esmewang.com
ASSISTANT
dan@esmewang.com
"Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit—in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever."
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A NEWSLETTER FOR AMBITIOUS WRITERS (OFTEN LIVING WITH LIMITATIONS)
