Loan Le

is a Senior Editor at Atria Books, an adult imprint at Simon & Schuster in Manhattan. She edits layered upmarket fiction and stylish, literary fiction with genre propulsion. Her titles have been selected for book clubs like Good Morning America, B&N, and Belletrist and picked for Indie Next and Book of the Month. Her talented authors have received recognition from the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada), the Center for Fiction, the New York Times, the Bram Stoker Awards, and more.

Her current manuscript wish list can be found here. Her latest acquisitions are on Publisher’s Marketplace.

When Loan is not working as a book editor, she is busy penning her next YA novel, Solving for the Unknown (S&S Books for Young Readers, Spring 2025), which is a companion novel to A Pho Love Story (February 2021). Her speculative short story about a ghost whisperer visiting Vietnam after her high school graduation is included in Firsts & Lasts, a YA anthology (Penguin Workshop, Fall 2023). Loan is also working on her adult novel: a globe-trotting family mystery about a young woman chasing down her enigmatic mother who’s linked to several cold cases.

She is represented by Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.

Please note that Loan is currently closed to blurb requests.