The Erewhon Team

Sarah Guan, Publisher. Sarah (she/her) is a Hugo Award-nominated editor who came to Erewhon after a varied career at Ace, DAW, and Orbit. She has worked with acclaimed authors such as C. L. Polk, winner of the World Fantasy and finalist for Canada Reads and the Locus, Nebula and Ignyte Awards; Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author and finalist for the Locus and British Fantasy Awards; Fonda Lee, winner of the World Fantasy and Aurora Awards and finalist for the Nebula, Locus, and Oregon Book Awards; Tasha Suri, winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and finalist for the Locus and Astounding Awards; Tade Thompson, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award, and the African Speculative Fiction Society's inaugural Nommo Award; Kacen Callender, winner of the World Fantasy, Stonewall, Lambda Literary and National Book Awards; and many more.

Sarah studied English and History at Stanford University, where she spearheaded The Stanford Daily's books and literature coverage. She enjoys board games, live theater, museums, and ukuleles.

Cassandra Farrin, Director. Cass (she/her) has been a champion of indie presses for the past ten years, doing everything from copyediting and proofreading to inventing production processes from scratch for a diverse array of academic and trade publishers. A US-UK Fulbright scholar in religious studies, she taught intercultural communication and interfaith dialogue before making the leap to publishing. Exploration of religion, culture, and ethics through the lens of speculative fiction is something she values deeply, both in her reading and in her own writing.

Diana M. Pho, Executive Editor. Diana (she/her) is a Hugo Award-winning editor with over 15 years of experience across various areas of the publishing industry, most notably the Science Fiction Book Club and the Tor Publishing Group. Before landing at Erewhon, Diana served as Lead Creative Executive for Co-Productions & Partnerships at the podcast studio Realm Media. She has 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, Lara Elena Donnelly, K. A. Doore, and Margaret Killjoy, among others. Books she has 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. Djeli Clark’s The Black God’s Drums), the Nebula Award (P. Djeli 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).

Diana herself is also a two-time finalist for the Ignyte Award and a finalist for the Locus Award for her editorial work. She has a double Bachelor’s degree in English and Russian Literature from Mount Holyoke College and a Master’s in Performance Studies from New York University. More than anything else, she appreciates a good cup of tea.

Martin Cahill, Marketing and Publicity Manager. Martin (he/him) has worked in SEO, publicity, marketing, social media, and more for many years. He has been involved in the speculative fiction community for over ten years and has worn many hats in his time: slush pile reader, literary agent freelancer, publicity and marketing specialist, fiction writer, consistent advocate and cheerleader in the writing community, and more.

Kasie Griffitts, Sales Associate. Kasie (she/her) has spent the past decade working for an international insurance company by day, and two independent bookstores by night. She has done just about everything in both sectors, from data analysis and compliance to running events and processing massive amounts of online book orders. There is truly nothing she loves more than compiling and organizing data while listening to an audiobook. In her free time, Kasie enjoys arguing about which brand of mustard is best, and hiking with her friends while complaining about mud and everyone else walking too fast.

Viengsamai Fetters, Assistant Editor. Viengsamai (they/them) joined Erewhon’s editorial team in 2022 after falling in love with Erewhon’s books as a bookseller. They interned with F(r)iction and have a B.A. in English from Miami University with significant study in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. In their spare time, Viengsamai can be found playing tabletop games or trying and failing to catch up on Star Trek. They live in Ohio with their wife and three rambunctious cats with Halloween names.

Liz Gorinsky, Founder. Liz (no pronouns) is a speculative fiction editor and founded Erewhon Books in 2018. Liz began working in publishing at Tor Books, editing a list that included popular and acclaimed speculative fiction authors Felix Gilman, Mary Robinette Kowal, Liu Cixin, Annalee Newitz, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Cherie Priest, Lev Rosen, Nisi Shawl, Brian Francis Slattery, Catherynne M. Valente, and Jeff VanderMeer; and anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, David Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ken Liu, and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Liz won the 2016 Alfie Award, designed and presented by George R. R. Martin, and the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form. Liz was part of the team that founded Tor.com and acquired and edited short fiction and comics for that site for many years, and acted as the reprint editor of Queers Destroy Fantasy. Liz started working in the speculative fiction field after studying English, Psychology, and Computer Science at Columbia College in New York City. Liz's tenure at Erewhon ended in March of 2022.