KCBS Radio afternoon news anchor and A2A founder Jeff Bell shares the story of award winning novelist and essayist Esme Wang.

Esme has battled mental heath challenges since she was a child. Today she lives with schizoaffective disorder as well as late stage Lyme disease. She is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her upcoming essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, which will be released in February 2019.

To learn more about Esme, please click here, and you can hear her extended conversation with Jeff in our A2A podcast below.