Goodbye, Vitamin (Khong) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1985-86
• Raised—southern California, USA
• Education—B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., University of Florida
• Currently—lives in San Francisco, California


Rachel Khong is Chinese-American food writer and author. Her 2017 debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, is about a young woman who returns home to find her father afflicted with Alzheimer's. She is also one of the writers of the 2017 nonfiction book, All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food, a compilation of essays, recipes, anecdotes by the Lucky Peach editorial staff.

Khong's parents immigrated from China to the States when she was two. She grew up in southern California, earned her Bachelor's from Yale and her Master's from the University of Florida. Returning to California, this time to San Francisco, Khong worked in restaurants and then, in 2011, landed a job as the managing editor for the food journal Lucky Peach. Five years later, she became the magazine's executive editor. She left Lucky Peach in 2016, shortly before it folded, in order to devote herself to full-time writing.

Khong's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Believer, Pitchfork and Village Voice. In 2013, she was named one of Refinery29's 30 under 30. (Adapted from varioius online souces.)

Read the author's interview with Vogue magazine.