Rachel Khong
Picador Guest Professor of summer 2026
Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin (2017, Holt) , winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction. Real Americans (2024, Knopf), her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2018, Khong founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission District. With friends, she teaches creative writing as The Dream Side. She lives in Los Angeles.
Rachel will teach two seminars at Uni Leipzig in the department of American Studies.
Her book Real Americans will be published in German February 12 from Kiepenheuer & Witsch and was also chosen by the publisher for “Deutschland liest ein Buch“.
The events for Leipzig and Berlin are already set! Mark your calendars for Leipzig on May 7 and for Berlin on June 4!
REAL AMERICANS is part of KiWi’s “Deutschland liest ein Buch”! Check it out.
