Diana M. Pho

Diana M. Pho is a queer, Vietnamese-American independent scholar, playwright, and Hugo Award-winning fiction editor. Currently, she is Executive Editor at Erewhon Books. She has over fifteen years of experience in book publishing and podcasts, most prominently at the Tor Publishing Group and Realm Media.

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Interrogating Scare Tactics: Today’s Horror Writing (Sponsored by Clarion west)

Kansas City Local Time:
June 5, 2021 9:30 am to 10:30 am

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Authors and editors discuss how current horror writers are subverting the genre’s troubling past and what new twists lay ahead.

Hanging up Your Shingle: How to Start in Freelance Editorial (Sponsored by podium audio)

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June 6, 2021 8:00 am to 9:00 am

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Experienced freelance editors give insights on how writers and publishing professionals can set up their own businesses in editorial.

Taking Marginalization to Acquisitions (sponsored by Liminal Fiction)

Kansas City Local Time:
June 6, 2021 9:30 am to 10:30 am

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Panelists: Diana M. Pho, Ruoxi Chen, Angeline Rodriguez and Tiana Coven (moderator)

Editors discuss how they approach pitching books featuring marginalized identities and non-western inspired worlds in acquisition meetings to marketing and sales teams that might fear they are not “commercial enough.”

Publishing Taught Me: Tools For Our Task

Kansas City Local Time:
October 25, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

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Panelists: Diana M. Pho, Erika Hardison, Zhui Ning Chang (moderator) and Somto Ihezue (moderator)

Editorial interns Somto Ihezue and Zhui Ning Chang talk with Publishing Taught Me anthology contributors Diana Pho and Erika Hardison about their essays and the anthology as a whole. They’ll also discuss some of the ways our field’s inclusivity is expanded and supported.