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Esmé Weijun Wang

Esmé Weijun Wang is an essayist, the author of the novel The Border of Paradise, and the recipient of the 2016 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Elle, Catapult, Hazlitt, the Believer and Lenny. She lives in San Francisco.

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In Conversation | Issue 139

In Conversation | Issue 139

Esmé Weijun Wang | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Esmé Weijun Wang

‘I really love Southern Gothic literature and so part of me was like – well, what if I could create an Immigrant Gothic?’

Fiction | Issue 139

Fiction | Issue 139

What Terrible Thing It Was

Esmé Weijun Wang

‘Dennis with his bespectacled eyes on his phone, performing the act of emotional multitasking. While I’ve been psychotic, he’s been phone banking.’