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Laura Gao (she/they) is a queer author, illustrator, bread vacuum, and everything in between. Gao immigrated from China to Texas, where their career blossomed from doodling on Pokémon cards to being featured on NPR, the Library of Congress, the MoCA, and most notably, their parents’ fridge. Their works include the viral webcomic, “The Wuhan I Know”, and the bestselling graphic memoir, Messy Roots, which was created in collaboration with Weiwei Xu.
Laura Gao is agented by Brenda Bowen at The Book Group. For business opportunities, commissions, workshops, and public speaking engagements, please send a request to the form below. Cute little notes and confessions of love are welcome too!
Lookin’ fly since ‘96
Hey Ma, I made it!
“How a viral tweet turned into a queer coming-of-age graphic novel” - Input Mag
“A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched” - NPR
“How 3 Women From Wuhan Cope With COVID-19: Rap, Poetry And Mooncakes” - NPR
My book deal with HarperCollins - Publishers Weekly
“'The Wuhan I Know': A Comic About The City Behind The Coronavirus Headlines” - NPR
“Artist Illustrates What Her Hometown Of Wuhan Is Really Like” - Huffington Post
“The flight attendant meme is here to shame your career choice” - Mashable
“Students create 'anti-resumes' to normalize failure at Penn” - The Daily Pennsylvanian
“2018 Best & Brightest 50 Business Undergrads in the U.S.” - Poets and Quants, Forbes
“Penn students’ design to reach new heights aboard the ISS” - Penn Engineering
“The Signal is combatting pre–professionalism one card game at a time” - 34st Street
“Student Spotlight Q&A: Laptop decal designer and Wharton sophomore” - The Daily Pennsylvanian
