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Viengsamai Fetters (pronounced wing-sum-eye fed-erz) is a queer Laotian-American fiction editor and professional bookworm.
A 2025 Publishers Weekly Star Watch finalist, they are currently an Associate Editor with Erewhon Books, working with award-winning and bestselling authors such as Kalyn Josephson, Foz Meadows, Lee Mandelo, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Brittney Arena, Linda H. Codega, and Ai Jiang. Prior to their editorial career, Viengsamai worked as a bookseller, where they fell in love with connecting people of all stripes with their perfect reads.
They graduated from Miami University with a Bachelor's degree in Literature, where they also completed significant study in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Women's & Gender Studies.
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Viengsamai has made their home in Chicagoland with their cat, Frankenstein.
Examples of books they currently represent:
The Library of Amorlin by Kalyn Josephson
House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai
Viengsamai is looking for:
I'm looking for entertaining and unforgettable speculative fiction with a sharp hook, vivid prose, and characters to go feral over. I especially love when books play with genre, grapple with timely themes, or bring new or underrepresented perspectives to light. Send me trendsetters, fandom fuel, and conversation-starters!
Viengsamai is not looking for:
Hard sells for me at the moment include doorstoppers, longer series (4+ books), most romantasy, Greek myth retellings, and dark academia.
I am not the right editor for short fiction, non-speculative work, kidlit, or YA fiction.
Learn more at www.viengsamai.com
Viengsamai Fetters (pronounced wing-sum-eye fed-erz) is a queer Laotian-American fiction editor and professional bookworm.
A 2025 Publishers Weekly Star Watch finalist, they are currently an Associate Editor with Erewhon Books, working with award-winning and bestselling authors such as Kalyn Josephson, Foz Meadows, Lee Mandelo, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Brittney Arena, Linda H. Codega, and Ai Jiang. Prior to their editorial career, Viengsamai worked as a bookseller, where they fell in love with connecting people of all stripes with their perfect reads.
They graduated from Miami University with a Bachelor's degree in Literature, where they also completed significant study in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, and Women's & Gender Studies.
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Viengsamai has made their home in Chicagoland with their cat, Frankenstein.
Examples of books they currently represent:
The Library of Amorlin by Kalyn Josephson
House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai
Viengsamai is looking for:
I'm looking for entertaining and unforgettable speculative fiction with a sharp hook, vivid prose, and characters to go feral over. I especially love when books play with genre, grapple with timely themes, or bring new or underrepresented perspectives to light. Send me trendsetters, fandom fuel, and conversation-starters!
Viengsamai is not looking for:
Hard sells for me at the moment include doorstoppers, longer series (4+ books), most romantasy, Greek myth retellings, and dark academia.
I am not the right editor for short fiction, non-speculative work, kidlit, or YA fiction.
Learn more at www.viengsamai.com