Alessandra Bastagli has worked in publishing for over two decades, both as a book editor and as an online features editor, at independent publishers including W.W. Norton & Co. and Nation Books (now Bold Type) as well as big five imprints Free Press and Dey Street. Some of the journalists she has worked with over the years include Vanessa Bee, Michelle Goldberg, Alia Malek, Dave Philipps, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Nomi Prins, Jeremy Scahill, and Gary Younge. She has also published academics, activists and public commentators including Juan Cole, William Deresiewicz, Ibram X. Kendi, Darnell Moore, John Nichols, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Nomi Prins, and Mychal Denzel Smith. Most recently, as Editorial Director at Astra House, Alessandra published Italian-Cuban antifascist novelist Alba de Céspedes’ FORBIDDEN NOTEBOOK, abolitionist and lawyer Derecka Purnell’s BECOMING ABOLITIONISTS, prof. Kohei Saito’s international bestseller SLOW DOWN, and Economist book of the year Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN. She is also fluent in Italian and German and is the published translator, from German, of Jurek Becker, and from Italian, of Primo Levi.

Rola Harb (she/her) joined One Signal Publishers in September 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 anticipated 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.

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.