Esmé Weijun Wang

Esmé Weijun Wang is an essayist and the author of The Border of Paradise: A Novel, to be published by Unnamed Press in April 2016. Her work has appeared in Salon, Catapult, The Believer, The New Inquiry, and Jezebel. She writes at esmewang.com.

I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped

For those of us living with severe mental illness, the world is full of cages. (An excerpt from Esmé Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias.)

Esmé Weijun Wang • 4 years ago 4 years ago

Who Gets To Be The "Good Schizophrenic"?

When you're labeled as crazy, the "right" kind of diagnosis could mean the difference between a productive life and a life sentence.

Esmé Weijun Wang • 7 years ago 7 years ago