Diana Pho

About Diana Pho

ABOUT ME 15+ years of experience in book publishing & editorial. Editor of novel-length manuscripts, graphic novels, and short fiction for adult, young adult, and middle grade. Deep experience in podcast producing & content creation with a focus on fiction narrative podcasts, audiobooks and script/IP development. Specialization in commercial mainstream and genre fiction. Extensive structural and line-editing experience in publishing with a keen eye for audio, narrative, and graphic storytelling. Uses institutional knowledge, cultural insights, and data analytics in editorial. Established relationships with literary agencies, film agencies, and production companies. Extensive experience in scouting for new talent. Able to collaborate with all branches of an organization and with outside groups to drive productivity and company brand BIODiana M. Pho is an independent scholar, playwright, podcast producer, and Hugo Award- winning fiction editor. She has over a decade of experience in traditional, Big Five publishing, including Tor Books, Tor.com Publishing, and the Science Fiction Book Club as well as in audio drama at Realm Media. Diana currently serves as Executive Editor at Erewhon Books.Books she has edited have won the Thriller Award, the Ditmar Award, the American Library Association\'s Alex Award, the Nebula Award, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year Selection. Her authors have also earned Junior Library Guild Selections and are finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda Literary, Shirley Jackson, and Andre Norton Awards. Diana herself is a two-time finalist for the Ignyte Award and the Locus Award, and a Hugo Award recipient for Best Editor, Long-Form, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of speculative fiction.Podcasts she has produced include Justin C. Key’s Spider King, E. A. Copen’s Black Friday starring Fred Armisen (#1 for Fiction on Apple Podcasts), Joel Dane’s Marigold Breach starring Jameela Jamil and Manny Jacinto (#2 for Fiction on Apple Podcasts), and Sam Boush’s Overleaper (#1 for Fiction on Apple Podcasts) starring Thora Birch.For years, she has traveled the country as a professional speaker and workshop teacher in fiction writing. She has been interviewed for many media outlets about fandom, including CBS’s Inside Edition, MSN.com, BBC America, the Travel Channel, HGTV, and the Science Channel.

Experience

1. Editorial Director

   Kensington Publishing

   Oct 2024 — Present · NY, US

   Expertly acquires and develops manuscripts for publication with a list of 8-10 titles a year. Actively seeks full-length adult and select YA fiction book projects from talent across a range of media industries Manages an associate editor alongside the publisher. Coordinates with sales, marketing, publicity, digital, art, and the publisher’s office through the life cycle of a book from acquisition to publication. Fosters professional relationships across the industry with authors, agents, and other publishing professionals. ABOUT EREWHONEREWHON BOOKS is an imprint of Kensington Books that focuses on novel-length works of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy, and related genres.At Erewhon, our mission is to publish thoughtful, groundbreaking, and unforgettable books that go straight to the reader’s heart, effortlessly strange stories that take readers on powerful emotional journeys. We embrace the liminal and unclassifiable and champion the unusual, the uncanny, and the hard-to-define. Our books ask hard questions about issues of sociopolitical change, power and privilege, and the impact of ideas and technologies. They explore and investigate society, poke at social norms, and celebrate the unique, diverse, and underrepresented identities and communities of the world we live in, all through the lens of entertaining, thought-provoking, and risk-taking speculative fiction. We encourage you to join us on this journey and look forward to connecting you with works of fiction that will delight, captivate, engage, and excite you.Learn more: erewhonbooks.com

Education

• Mount Holyoke College

  Bachelor's degree

• New York University

  Master's of the Arts

Skills

• Digital Publishing
• Freelance Writing
• Web Content
• Writing
• Photoshop
• Editorial
• Editing
• Newsletters
• Marketing
• Copy Editing
• Content Strategy
• Publishing
• Online Marketing
• Content Development
• Publicity
• Social Networking
• Social Media Marketing
• Blogging
• Blog
• Online Publishing
• Internal Communications
• Proofreading
• Social Media
• Books
• Web Content Writing
• Adobe Photoshop
• Fact-Checking
• Ebooks
• Copywriting