Rachel Khong was born on 1985 and is an American writer and editor based in Los Angeles as of 2021.
13 Facts About Rachel Khong
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Rachel Khong grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and attended high school in nearby Diamond Bar, California.
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Rachel Khong attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in English in 2007.
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Rachel Khong is married to Eli Horowitz, co-creator of Gimlet's Homecoming podcast and former editor at McSweeney's.
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Rachel Khong interned at McSweeney's while in college and edited cookbooks for them after graduating.
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In 2011, Chris Ying of Lucky Peach, who Rachel Khong had met while interning at McSweeney's, asked her to be the managing editor of the magazine.
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Rachel Khong later went on to become executive editor of Lucky Peach.
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Rachel Khong cofounded The Ruby in 2018, a female oriented co-working space based in Mission District, San Francisco.
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Rachel Khong retired from managing the space and moved to Los Angeles in 2021.
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Rachel Khong's writing has appeared in publications such as American Short Fiction, Joyland, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Rachel Khong is the coauthor of a cookbook from Lucky Peach called All About Eggs.
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Rachel Khong has written book reviews for the New York Times, including of novels by Maria Kuznetsova and Sarah Elaine Smith.
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Rachel Khong's second novel, Real Americans, was a New York Times bestseller.