Gabriella Page-Fort

Gabriella Page-Fort is executive editor at HarperOne. She has published New York Times-bestselling nonfiction by Jillian Turecki, Brianna Madia, and Pope Francis as well as Sandra Guzman’s Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women, which features Indigenous poets appearing in English translation for the first time. Page-Fort also worked on the releases of Zora Neale Hurston’s never-before-published novel The Life of Herod the Great; the international bestseller Maktub by Paulo Coelho (translated by Margaret Jull Costa); What Happened to Belen by Ana Correa (translated by Julia Sanches); poet Sholeh Wolpé’s new translation of the twelfth-century mystic poet Attar’s The Invisible Sun; and Susan Muaddi Darraj’s PEN/Faulkner Prize short-listed novel Behind You Is the Sea. 

Prior to HarperCollins, Page-Fort served as editorial director of Amazon Crossing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, where she was named “Star Watch Superstar” by Publishers Weekly in 2017 for her work publishing award-winning authors and international bestsellers, including fiction by Oliver Pötzsch, Emmelie Prophète, Johary Ravaloson, Laura Restrepo, Sofía Segovia, and Oksana Zabuzhko, and nonfiction, such as the New York Times bestseller A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa (translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown) and Mortada Gzar’s PEN Translation long-listed memoir I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? (translated by William Hutchins).

Page-Fort has served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts’ translation grants and on the board of directors for Seattle City of Literature.