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Esmé Weijun Wang has been featured and mentioned in a number of publications and podcasts/radio, including the New York Times, the New Yorker Online, the Washington Post, BBC Ideas, PBS Newshour, and Weekend Edition (NPR). She has also been heard on KCRW’s UnFictional, WNYC, and NPR’s Weekend Update. For media requests, please send an email to publicity@esmewang.com. To invite Esmé to come speak at your event, please contact Trinity Ray at trinity@tuesdayagency.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 won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize (2016), was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in their decennial list (2017), received a 2018 Whiting Award, and was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, Esmé lives in San Francisco. She is the founder of The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy for ambitious writers living with limitations, and can be found at esmewang.com



IN CONVERSATION ONSTAGE AT RICHARDSON AUDITORIUM, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (CREDIT: B. DOWNING)

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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

SELECT PRESS

ONLINE & PRINT

PODCAST, RADIO, & TV

SELECT EVENTS

2020

  • February 7 – 10: Esmé Weijun Wang at the Tin House Winter Workshop, facilitating the nonfiction workshop alongside T Kira Madden and Wendy C. Ortiz (Newport, OR)
  • August 10: Molly Wizenberg presents “The Fixed Stars,” with Esmé Weijun Wang with Green Apple Books
  • August 14: Akwaeke Emezi presents “The Death of Vivek Oji,” with Esmé Weijun Wang with The Elliott Bay Book Company
  • September 29: Marilynne Robinson presents “Jack,” with Esmé Weijun Wang with Community Bookstore (online event)
  • October 20: The Powerhouse Arena presents Virtual Paperback Launch: Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison with Lynn Steger Strong, Andre Perry, Gregory Pardlo, and Esmé Weijun Wang (online event)



2021

  • Jan 19: Debutiful & Write or Die Tribe Present a Reading of New, Unpublished, and Unpolished Work Benefiting the Okra Project (7:30 PM EST), with Esmé Weijun Wang, R.O. Kwon, and Karan Mahajan (admission: $5 donation)
  • September 23: Chanel Miller in Conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (6:30 PM PST)
  • November 4: Keynote in partnership with Princeton University Public Lectures at the Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University (6 PM EST) (information)

2022

  • An Evening with Esmé Weijun Wang (April 13, 2023 at 5:00pm) (online)
  • An Evening with Esmé Weijun Wang (April 17, 2023 at 7:00pm) at the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison, WI
  • Panel discussion at the Radcliffe Institute (April 28, 2023) in Cambridge, MA
  • 2023 Women's Mental Health Conference (April 29, 2023) in New Haven, CT
  • Duolingo Truth & Triumph Speaker Series: A Conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang (May 9, 2023) (online)
  • R.F. Kuang for Yellowface, in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang (May 13, 2023) at Haymarket Theater, Palo Alto, CA
  • Jillian and Mariko Tamaki for Roaming, in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang (October 20, 2023) at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • World Schizophrenia Day with Mt. Sinai and NAMI, keynote address by Esmé Weijun Wang (October 26, 2023) in New York City, NY

2023


  • Esmé Weijun Wang (Friday, March 18, 2022 at 7:00pm) hosted at San José State University Student Union Theatre. Free admission
  • Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival: Writers Craft Session. Friday, March 25, 10 – 11:15am & Memories are Made of This. Sunday, March 27, 10 – 11:15am (Literary Discussion)
  • Ingrid Rojas Contreras with Esmé Weijun Wang (Monday, July 18, 2022 at 6pm) at City Lights Bookstore
  • Portland Book Festival, Mean Baby: Selma Blair with Esmé Weijun Wang. Saturday, November 5 at 10:00 am PDT

2024

  • An Evening with Esmé Weijun Wang (March 8, 2024) at the Collegiate School in New York City, New York

illustration by Julia Leister

Here are a variety of media bios that you and your publication/organization can use.

SHORTER BIO:

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the New York Times-bestselling essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, Esmé lives in San Francisco, and can be found at esmewang.com.

LONGER BIO:

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 won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize (2016), was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in their decennial list (2017), received a 2018 Whiting Award, and was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents, Esmé lives in San Francisco. She is the founder of The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy for ambitious writers living with limitations, and can be found at esmewang.com

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