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Diana M. Pho
Editorial Director at Erewhon Books
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Diana M. Pho is an editor and scholar with a background in speculative fiction publishing. She joined Erewhon Books as an editor and has previously worked at Tor Books. She is also known for her academic work on steampunk and her editorial advocacy for diverse voices in speculative fiction.
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[updated April 2026] Erewhon Books is not currently taking unagented submissions, with the exception of conference appearances. About Me: [she/her] I am a Hugo Award-winning developmental editor, public speaker, podcast producer, and all-around nerd, specializing in audio, narrative, and sequential storytelling. My previous jobs included editorial at the Tor Publishing Group and Lead Creative Executive for Co-Productions & Partnerships at the podcast studio Realm. I’m currently Editorial Director at Erewhon Books. I’ve had the pleasure of working with household names like George R. R. Martin and the Robert Jordan estate for The Wheel of Time, as well as critically acclaimed writers such as Bethany C. Morrow, P. Djèlí Clark, August Clarke, Andrea Eames, Venessa Vida Kelley, Monika Kim, Lee Mandelo, Seth Dickinson, Lara Elena Donnelly, K. A. Doore, Margaret Killjoy, Nadia Shammas, Benjamin A. Wilgus, and Zalika Reid-Benta, among others. Books I’ve edited have won the Thriller Award (A.J. Hartley’s Steeplejack, for Best Young Adult), the Ditmar Award (Thoraiya Dyer’s Crossroads of Canopy, for Best Novel), the American Library Association’s Alex Award (P. Djèlí Clark’s The Black God’s Drums), the Nebula Award (P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout & A Master of Djinn) and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year Selection (Marie Miranda Cruz’s Everlasting Nora, for Middle Grade). Recent accolades include Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the Best Part (Time Magazine’s Best 100 Books of the Year; GoodReads Choice Awards finalist; Bram Stoker Award winner) and Metal from Heaven by August Clarke (PW‘s Best SFF of the Year; Washington Post‘s Best SFF of the Year, LAMBDA Award Winner for Best Speculative Fiction). I’m also a two-time Hugo Award recipient for Best Editor, Long-Form in 2021 and 2025, two-time the Ignyte Award finalist, and a two-time Locus Award finalist for my editorial work. *** I am actively seeking full-length adult prose novels across the range of speculative fiction. What I always look for in a manuscript: My editorial tastes veer toward upmarket commercial fiction with an accessible hook. I want stories that are unapologetically noisy, tackle chewy sociopolitical conversations, and impact the wider pop culture conversation. Must haves include: Agents can also refer to my Publishers Marketplace profile for recent deals. What I’m currently into: Book length: I do not edit “doorstopper” fiction (anything over approximately 120K words). That being the case, I’m not very interested in epic fantasy or huge space opera stories. However, I am seeking shorter novels (anything at least 50K). Science Fiction: Near-future, space adventure, cyberpunk, afrofuturism, transhumanism or the singularity, and climate science fiction. I’d also be interested in mainstream fiction with a speculative edge. Subjects I will read endlessly about include transhumanism, virtual realities, time travel, the multiverse, climate utopias (as in “We can save the world with science & good polit
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