USA, Guest Professorships, 2026
Rachel
Khong
Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction. Real Americans, 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.
In the summer semester of 2026, Rachel Khong will be Picador Visiting Professor of Literature and will teach two seminars at Leipzig University in the Department of American Studies.