Discipline: Literature – fiction

Esmé Weijun Wang

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019
More: esmewang.com

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.

Studios

Monday Music

Esmé Weijun Wang worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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