ONE SIGNAL PUBLISHERS

Alessandra Bastagli

Publisher

Alessandra Bastagli has worked in publishing for over two decades, both as a book editor and as an online features editor. Some of the journalists she has worked with over the years include Vanessa A. Bee, Thanassis Cambanis, Irin Carmon, Jeanne Carstensen, Matthew Cole, Kevin Fagan, Sarah Jaffe, Joseph V. Lee, Alia Malek, and Gary Younge. She has also published and is working with academics, activists and public commentators including Italian-Cuban antifascist Alba De Céspedes, podcast host and professor Leah Litman writing on the Supreme Court, lawyer Derecka Purnell on police abolition, Rep. Ilhan Omar, MacArthur fellow and professor Dorothy Roberts on her parents’ interracial marriage, Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito on degrowth, African feminist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah on sexuality and pleasure and civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio on trans rights. She is also fluent in Italian and German and is the published translator, from German, of Jurek Becker, and from Italian, of Primo Levi.

NICholaS CIANI

Executive Editor

Nicholas Ciani joined Atria in 2019. In the past, he has worked at The New Yorker, Macmillan, and at Vigliano Associates where he represented and helped develop projects in fiction and nonfiction.

His list includes Jason Stanley’s “blueprint for the worldwide fascist attack on history” (Althea Butler) Erasing History; Kim Kelly’s Fight Like Hell, a New Yorker Best of 2022 pick; social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory’s State of Emergency; Alice Randall's “landmark” (Bookpage) My Black Country, Afghanistan War veteran Miles Lagoze’s Whistles from the Graveyard ("gonzo, ghoulish, and unforgettable" - Kirkus [starred review], and the upcoming The Beast In the Clouds by bestselling author Nathalia Holt.

Nick was a 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch nominee. As an agent, he sold novelist Max Gross’s 2020 National Jewish Book Award winner The Lost Shtetl.

Rola Harb

Associate Editor

Rola Harb (she/her) joined One Signal Publishers in 2024. She was most recently at Astra House Books where she edited, among others, PW starred Sunrise by Erika Kobayashi, one of Debutiful, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Reactor's Most Anticipated of 2024, Mouth by Puloma Ghosh, Kirkus starred Pedro and Marques Take Stock by José Falero, the highly acclaimed The Chronicles of Doom by S.H. Fernando Jr., and the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White. At OSP, she has acquired the forthcoming They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful by Elena Dudum (Fall 2026) and Ola Salem's From Frankincense to Fragheads (Spring 2027).

Rola is drawn to ideas that challenge the literary norm and evocative storytelling that highlights the voices of those who have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing. She's seeking prose-forward nonfiction in the fields of cultural criticism and memoir as well as voice-driven, experimental literary fiction and literature in translation.

Areas of Interest: Narrative Nonfiction, Cultural Criticism, Memoir, Social Theory, Literature in Translation, Literary Fiction, Speculative and Genre-Bending stories, Marginalized and Underrepresented Communities and Voices

Abby Mohr

Assistant Editor

Abby Mohr joined One Signal Publishers in 2022. She is passionate about narrative nonfiction that brings untold stories to light in a creative and accessible way, whether that be in the categories of memoir, pop culture, feminism, or cultural history. Her forthcoming titles include Cults Like Us by Jane Borden, U Up? by Hanna Kozlowska, and The Body Shop by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch. She has also assisted on bestselling and critically acclaimed titles by Marisa Meltzer, Amanda Montell, Stephanie Land, Maggie Smith, and more. Abby previously worked at Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group and holds a BA in English and Sociology with a minor in Film Studies from Wake Forest University. Raised just outside of Philadelphia, Abby lives in Manhattan, but remains a loyal Eagles fan.