Rachel Kushner

She has been nominated for the Booker Prize twice, longlisted for The Mars Room in 2018 and shortlisted for Creation Lake in 2024. She is also the author of The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling novels The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.