Ge Gao is a Chinese writer based in New York City. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Longreads, Words Without Borders, Twin Cities Daily Planet, and elsewhere. In 2020, she was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist fellowship. Her essay “A Survey of My Right Arm” was named Notable in The Best American Essays 2020. She teaches at Hunter College. She is now working on a book of essays about her cross-cultural coming-of-age story.
Ge Gao
Articles by Ge Gao:
Separate Fidelities
in Issue 99 | Where You Stay (Jan 2022)But now, when no one expected me to interpret simultaneously nor with absolute accuracy, my anxiety came from elsewhere—not only did I translate Mr. Chen and Joan’s conversations, I tried to create conversations for them. The circumstances made my role more than a language interpreter: I was a mediator.