Born and raised in China, Tong Ge came to Canada in the late 1980s as an international student, earning a Master of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992. Since 2012, she has written under both her real name and the pen name Tong Ge, publishing poetry, prose, and short stories in English and Chinese across North America, England, Mainland China and Taiwan. Her debut novel, The House Filler, was published in Canada in 2023. It is a finalist for the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards for historical fiction and Memoir; the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards for Fiction; the 2025 Page Turner Phoenix Award; and the 2025 International Book Awards for Historical Fiction and Multicultural Fiction. It has won the 2024 Independent Press Award for New Fiction, the 2025 National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE) Award for Literary Fiction, the 2025 Maxy Book Award for Historical & Adventure Fiction, the 2025 Storytrade Book Awards for Historical and Literary Fiction, and Second Place in the 2025 BookFest Award for Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction.