Rachel Khong

Rachel Khong

2025 Author-in-Residence + 2020 Virtual Author-in-Residence Rachel Khong is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her 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...
Holly Root

Holly Root

2020 Guest Literary Agent, Root Literary Holly is a literary agent and founder of Root Literary. She represents authors of fiction and select nonfiction for kids, teens, and adults, and her list includes New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Publishers...
Sarah Bowlin

Sarah Bowlin

2020 Virtual Guest Literary Agent, Aevitas Creative Management Sarah joined Aevitas Creative Management in 2017. Before becoming an agent, she spent a decade as an editor of literary fiction and nonfiction, first at Riverhead Books and most recently at Henry Holt...
Elizabeth Kratch

Elizabeth Kratch

2020 Virtual Guest Literary Agent, Kimberley Cameron & Associates Liz is a literary agent with Kimberley Cameron & Associates and the author of The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript. Elizabeth represents both...
Rufi Thorpe

Rufi Thorpe

2019 Author-in-Residence Rufi received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was longlisted for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her second novel,...