XiaoYing Gao is a writer born in Beijing who has lived in Oslo, Norway, for ten years. She has previously published fiction in China. Her debut English-language novel, The Norwegian Organist, follows a Chinese woman in Oslo who is drawn into the quiet, closed world of a church organist. Writing from the position of an outsider, she is interested in belonging, loneliness, and the small intimacies that bring two people together across cultures. She publishes under her own imprint, Interval Edition Press.
