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About Esmé Weijun Wang

Writer. Author of an award-winning, best-selling essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, & an award-winning novel, The Border of Paradise. Founder of The Unexpected Shape Writing Academy. Clue in the New York Times crossword.

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