About Goodbye, Vitamin Author Rachel Khong
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Rachel Khong grew up in Southern California, and holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Florida. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Joyland, American Short Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and California Sunday. She lives in San Francisco. Goodbye, Vitamin is her first novel.
From 2011 to 2016, Khong 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. She is currently at work on a novel, called Real Americans.
Reviews of Goodbye, Vitamin
Goodbye, Vitamin won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. It was also was named a Best Book of the Year in 2017 by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Huffington Post, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Booklist, and The Independent.
Interviews with Rachel Khong
Seattle Refined: “Talking to Rachel Khong, author of ‘Goodbye, Vitamin'”
Asian American Writers’ Workshop: “Behind the Fiction: An Interview with Rachel Khong”
The Writer Magazine: “Rachel Khong: How I Write”
Other Stories by Rachel Khong
Summer 2021 “Tapetum Lucidum“ Ploughshares
April 2020 “Slow and Steady” The Cut
Fall 2018 “The Refreshing” The Paris Review
November 2017 “If A Tree Falls In A Forest” Buzzfeed
May 2017 “My Dear You” Tin House
July 2013 “Algae You In My Dreams” Joyland
Other Media and News
LeVar Burton Reads “My Dear You”
Constance Wu to Star in ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ Adaptation for Universal