Pham was born in Hobart[2] after her parents arrived there during the 1970s to study.
Her novel The Other Shore was a co-winner of Seizure's Viva la Novella 2 competition.
[3] Her first novel, Vixen led her to win the 2001 Sydney Morning Herald's Young Writer of the Year award.
[4] Vixen also was a finalist for the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel but lost to Juliet Marillier's Son of the Shadows.
[5] She was the founding editor of Peril, an online journal for Asian Australians.