Ashley Di Dio, Associate Editor

Ashley Di Dio joined Putnam in 2020 and publishes upmarket, cross-genre book club fiction and paradigm-shifting nonfiction that inspire, challenge, and analyze our morality and humanity, especially
through diverse perspectives. She loves big-hearted romance, sweeping family or friendship sagas, psychologically stimulating and propulsive stories, social commentary undertones, and anything involving haunted houses, witches, and magic. Her nonfiction leans narrative in nature and includes memoir, self-help, psychology, and select history with a pop culture, millennial/gen-z, or feminist bent.

Ashley has worked with New York Times bestselling and acclaimed authors Jan Karon, Jessica Urlichs, Naomi Krupitsky, Jill Santopolo, Frances Liardet, Annabel Monaghan, KJ Dell’Antonia, Nigar Alam, and Amita Parikh, among others. Her recent and upcoming fiction includes My Beloved by Jan Karon, Drive Me Crazy by Lizzy Dent, Four Squares by Bobby Finger, While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi, Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam, The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy, and Hot Summer by Elle Everhart. Her recent and upcoming nonfiction includes The Relaxed Woman by Nicola Jane Hobbs, Beautiful Chaos by Jessica Urlichs, Too Tired to Fight by Erin and Stephen Mitchell, The Cost of Quiet by Colette Fehr, and Forbidden Fruit by Jessica Cale.