M. Gessen
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Gessen in 2015 | |
| Born | Mariya Aleksandrovna Gessen 1967 (age 58–59) |
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| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Keith Gessen (brother) |
M. Gessen (formerly known as Masha Gessen; Russian: Маша Гессен) is a Russian American journalist, author, and translator who has written extensively on LGBT rights.
Gessen writes primarily in English but also in Russian. In addition to authoring several nonfiction books, they have contributed 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.
Gessen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2017 and an opinion columnist at The New York Times since May 2024.