COO and Publisher
Ben Schrank
(he/him/his)
Ben Schrank is publisher of Astra House and COO of Astra Publishing House. Ben was previously president and publisher at Henry Holt & Company and prior to that, president and publisher of Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House. At Astra, Ben has acquired fiction and nonfiction, including THE BATHYSPHERE BOOK by Brad Fox, SEEING by Chai Jing, and THIEVING SUN by Monica Datta, as well as other works by Daniel Gumbiner, Royal Society of Literature Encore award winner Daisy Hildyard, August Prizewinner Lydia Sandgren and 20th Century renowned Chinese novelist and essayist Wang Xiaobo. Upcoming books include and MRS. LILIENBLUM’S CLOUD FACTORY by Iddo Gefen and FORECLOSURE GOTHIC by Harris Lahti.
You can reach him at bschrank@astrapublishinghouse.com