Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen
Маша Гессен
Gessen in 2015
Born (1967-01-13) 13 January 1967 (age 57)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russian Federation)
NationalityRussian
Citizenship
  • Russia
  • United States
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • author
  • activist
Spouse
  • Lynne Echenberg
Children3
RelativesKeith Gessen (brother)

Masha Gessen (Russian: Мари́я "Маша" Алекса́ндровна Ге́ссен; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator.[1][2] Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns.[3][4] Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights.[5]

Gessen writes primarily in English but also in their native Russian. In addition to being the author of several non-fiction books, they have been a prolific contributor to such publications as 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.[6]

  1. ^ "Masha Gessen". Contemporary Authors Online. 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  2. ^ Thomas, June (21 April 2016). "The Art of the Perfect Subtitle". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  3. ^ Gessen, Masha [@mashagessen] (23 June 2020). "I avoided the topic of pronouns for a while" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 August 2020 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Маша Гессен: о Трампе, тестостероне и терроре". Youtube. 18 February 2020. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  5. ^ Gessen, Masha (9 October 2019). "The Supreme Court Considers L.G.B.T. Rights, but Can't Stop Talking About Bathrooms". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  6. ^ Kingsbury, Kathleen (23 May 2024). "Masha Gessen Joins the Times as an Opinion Columnist" (Press release). The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 21 July 2024.