Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen (; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses ''they/them'' pronouns. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights.

Gessen writes primarily in English but also in Russian. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, Gessen has been a contributor to ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The New Republic'', ''New Statesman'', ''Granta'', ''Slate'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''The New Yorker'', and ''U.S. News & World Report''. They have been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 2017, and an opinion columnist at ''The New York Times'', under the byline M. Gessen, since May 2024. Provided by Wikipedia