Laura Gao (Chinese: 高宇洋; pinyin: Gāo Yǔyáng[1]) is a Chinese-American comics artist.

Gao became famous when she released a short comic called "The Wuhan I Know" in response to the growing sinophobia due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[4] Gao grew up in Coppell, Texas,[5] and later moved to Philadelphia to study at the University of Pennsylvania, where she attended business school.

[6] Following the release of the comic, an animation by Twitter's creative team was created based on Gao's comic,[8][7] and in July 2020, it was announced that HarperCollins had acquired the rights to two books by her: one memoir called Messy Roots[9] and another nonfiction book about her life as a product manager, an artist and being queer.

[10][9] After receiving the offer for her books, Gao decided to leave her position at Twitter to focus on her work as an artist.