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Ka-Yee Essoe

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Born

Ngau Tau Kok, Hong Kong

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https://snowquillpress.com/authors/k_landing/

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Fantasy, Fiction, Psychology

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金庸(Jin Yong), Joshua Essoe, Charles Dickens, Timothy J. Keller ...more

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Ka-Yee Essoe (劉家宜), Ph.D. (Psychology, UCLA; Psychiatry Postdoc, Johns Hopkins Medicine) is an assistant professor at a small, public university at rural Maine. As a cognitive neuroscientist specialising in learning enhancement, she understands the power of stories to instil empathy, resilience, joy, and hope. She began writing novels to do just that.

As an East Asian immigrant who enjoys many intercultural friendships, rich cultural diversity permeates the worlds and conflicts she crafts in her epic fantasy novels with integral love-story threads. Drawing on her personal experience and 10+ years mentoring others to navigate anxiety, disabilities, abuse, discrimination, trauma, and grief, her stories follow characters facing these struggles ...more

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Time Becomes Relevant: Shazzwick of Land, Vol. 1
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Aaron Fors (Narrator)

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