Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K., and a book of essays, The Hard Crowd. All three of her novels have been New York Times bestsellers her work is translated into 26 languages. Her next novel, completed but not officially titled, will be out sometime in 2024.
Kushner has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace 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.
At MacDowell, she worked on her novel Creation Lake (Scriber, 2024).
