![]() What started as a genteel industry-one in which rich, white, powerful men and women dictated what everyone read-has followed, however slowly, mainstream culture’s seismic shift toward a wider, more diverse landscape. It would be difficult to overstate how much publishing has changed in recent years-and how much more significant change is still needed. After eight years at Folio, she joined Ayesha Pande Literary, where she has used her incisive editorial eye to publish writers like award-winning poet Franny Choi, columnist and author John Paul Brammer, and the speculative fiction novelist Sequoia Nagamatsu, all writers who are expanding what narratives can do to speak truth to power, to grapple with our increasingly complex and complicated world, to write in a society where to be your true self can also be dangerous.Īs is often the case with publishing professionals of color, Hwang and I met because we were the only nonwhite people in the room. She later became a part-time office manager, then a part-time assistant agent, and finally an agent able to sign authors whose work spoke to her. Martin’s Press put her in touch with Folio Literary, where she landed an internship. Following a successful informational interview, an editor at St. ![]() She started by applying for editorial positions, as they were the only ones she knew about in publishing at the time. Hwang came to agenting by accident: With hopes of becoming an editor, she moved to New York City after graduating from UCLA in 2012. ![]()
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