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Rachel Khong, author of MY DEAR YOU (opens the original)
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Rachel says: I’m a writer living in Los Angeles. My debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, I was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, I also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, I founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission dis
Ariel Delgado Dixon, author of SOURLAND (opens the original)
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Ariel Delgado Dixon was born in Trenton, New Jersey. She is the author of the novels Sourland and Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she teaches writing and works in farming.<img alt="" class="sizing
Kimberly McCreight, author of SOMEONE ELSE’S HUSBAND (opens the original)
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Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Reconstructing Amelia, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Alex Awards and was called Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Book of the Year. A Good Marriage was named a Best Book of the Summer by the New York Times, People, and Publishers Weekly. It was also an Amazon Best Mystery of the Month. A TV adaptation of A Good Marriage is coming soon from Amazon and Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films. A national bes
Literary agent Maria Whelan (opens the original)
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Maria Whelan is an agent at Mushens Entertainment, in London. Prior to that, for more than 8 years, she worked as an assistant and agent at InkWell Management in New York. She began her career in publishing as a Foreign Rights Assistant at Janklow & Nesbit in New York. Maria graduated from University College Dublin with a BA in English and Drama, then obtained her Master’s in Literature and Modernity from the University of Edinburgh. Maria represents both fiction and nonfiction writers, includin
A fundamentals refresher (opens the original)
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