2025 Author-in-Residence + 2020 Virtual Author-in-Residence

Rachel Khong is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, she also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district; she retired at the end of 2021. Her second novel, Real Americans, was published by Knopf in 2024, and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Rachel grew up in Southern California, and holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Florida. You can find her on Instagram @rrrrrrrachelkhong or on her website, rachelkhong.com.