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, most recently, THE BATHYSPHERE BOOK by Brad Fox, SEEING by Chai Jing, and FIRE IN THE CANYON by Daniel Gumbiner, as well as other works by Yuri Felsen, 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 THIEVING SUN by Monica Datta and MRS. LILIENBLUM’S CLOUD FACTORY by Iddo Gefen.
You can reach him at bschrank@astrapublishinghouse.com