Sarah Russo
FounderSarah Russo (she/her) is a publishing professional with over twenty years of experience working across the spectrum of publicity, communications, traditional marketing, social media marketing, branding, and business development. Sarah has worked in-house for Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and Oxford University Press, and as a consultant for organizations and companies like the National Book Critics Circle, the Association of University Presses, the American Booksellers Association, Scribd, Curtis Brown, Ltd., The Oxford American, And Other Stories, Coffee House Press, Europa Editions, and with authors too numerous to count but that include Lindsay Chervinsky, Simon Winchester, Jeffrey Sachs, Nadine Strossen, Benjamin Moser, Diane Cook, Kathleen Hall Jamison, James McPherson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valeria Luiselli, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Amartya Sen, Harvey J. Kaye, Richard White, Donna Freitas, Lidia Yuknavitch, and David Kilcullen.
Most recently, Sarah was the Global Head of Audience Engagement, Publicity, and Social Media for Oxford University Press, the largest not-for-profit publisher of trade and academic books in the world. She was also the Global Head of Trade Marketing from 2016–2018. Her work at OUP spanned trade books, the dictionaries program, journals, and online products as well as major launches for publications like the AIA Guide to the City of New York, Greater Gotham by Mike Wallace, the 80th anniversary celebration of the Oxford English Dictionary, and programming the annual Bryant Park Oxford World’s Classics Book Club. She is currently a mentor in the 92nd Street Y’s Women inPower fellowship program and faculty at the Columbia Publishing Program.
Sarah is a regular speaker at conferences, book festivals, and universities. She has been a speaker at Social Media Week, the Association of American Historians and the Organization of American Historians, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, Johns Hopkins University, The New School, Adelphi University, Pace University, and many others. You can connect with her on BlueSky, LinkedIn, or Instagram.
Laura Di Giovine
Associate Director of PublicityLaura Di Giovine (she/her) is the Associate Director of Publicity for Page One Media. She joined the company in September 2022 as the Publicity Manager. A publishing professional with 15+ years of industry experience, she previously worked at Independent Publishers Group (IPG) and Smith Publicity, where she handled numerous high-profile book publicity and expert positioning campaigns.
Laura has a wide range of experience promoting authors across many genres, including fiction, business, health & wellness, politics, sports, and more. Laura has garnered national media placements for authors in outlets such as NBC’s TODAY, NBC News Now, NewsNation Now, All Things Considered, Amazon Book Review, Air Mail, BOMB, CNN, Ebony, Elle, FOX & Friends, Fortune, Here & Now, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Oprah Daily, Parade, Salon, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Vanity Fair. Some of her previous work includes publicity campaigns for The Postcard by Anne Berest (Europa Editions), Wolfish by Erica Berry (Flatiron), Loot by Tania James (Knopf), Bright Kids Who Couldn’t Care Less by Dr. Ellen Braaten (Guilford Press), The Common Flaw by Thomas Moukawsher (Brandeis University Press), The Bishop and the Butterfly by Michael Wolraich (Union Square & Co.), Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis by Greg Wrenn (Regalo Press), and The Incorruptibles by Dan Slater (Little, Brown & Co.). Some of her current campaigns include Digging Into Nature by Dr. Pooja Sarin Tandon and Dr. Danette Swanson Glassy (American Academy of Pediatrics), Fathers and Fugitives by S.J. Naudé (Europa Editions), My Mother in Havana: A Memoir of Magic & Miracle by Rebe Huntman (Monkfish Book Publishing Co.), and The Good Mother Myth by Nancy Reddy (St. Martin’s Press).
She is also a freelance editor and writer, and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English Literature from the University of San Francisco. Born in Rome and a dual US-Italian citizen, she was raised in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys returning to the Pacific NW with her family every year. You can connect with her on Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram.
Laci Durham
Associate Publicist and Assistant Marketing ManagerLaci Durham (she/her) is an Associate Marketing Manager and Associate Publicist for Page One Media. She joined the company in November 2021 as the Publicity and Marketing Assistant. With a passion for contemporary literature, marketing, and social media, Laci works to help our authors and their books find the audiences that most need them.
Laci leads all marketing efforts for Page One Media. A few of her current campaigns include a full marketing campaign for Making the Presidency by Lindsay Chervinsky, as well as influencer campaigns for Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson, Mothership by Greg Wrenn, and The Forgetters by Greg Sarris.
Some of her previous work includes: publicity campaigns for A Volga Tale by Guzel Yakhina (Europa Editions), Mrs. S by K Patrick (Europa Editions), and Alma: The Wind Rises by Timothée de Fombelle (Europa Editions). She has earned coverage in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vulture, and Cosmopolitan, among others. She has also lead influencer marketing campaigns for My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel (Europa Editions), The Postcard by Anne Berest (Europa Editions), Loot by Tania James (Knopf), and The Storm of Echoes: Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Series by Christelle Dabos (Europa Editions).
She is a native of Colorado with a degree in English Literature from the University of Northern Colorado and a graduate certificate in publishing from the Denver Publishing Institute. She now lives in Astoria, Queens with her dog Bingley. Laci is an active bookstagrammer and you can find her at @literature.and.lace on Instagram, on X (formerly Twitter) at @lacildurham, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
Poppy Hatrick
Senior Publicity ExecutivePoppy Hatrick (she/her) is a Senior Publicity Executive at Page One Media, where she leads campaigns, supports and consults the agency across campaigns, as required. She started at Page One Media in 2020 as a Senior Publicist.
Poppy started her career at Oxford University Press, NY and has over seven years of experience as a book publicist. She has managed a wide range of national campaigns including expert positioning, fiction, and non-fiction; working with international bestsellers to debuts. Poppy has secured top-tier coverage in outlets such as NPR’s Weekend Edition, The New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and TIME among others.
Poppy graduated with a BA in Communications from Bournemouth University in the UK. She is a dual UK-US citizen, and after years in the States, she now resides in her hometown Oxford; a city full of literary history! You can connect with her on X (formerly Twitter) or LinkedIn.
Isabella Nugent
Senior PublicistIsabella Nugent (she/her) is a Senior Publicist at Page One Media, where she manages publicity campaigns for a diverse list of authors, experts, and high-profile clients. She joined the team in June 2023 as a Senior Publicist, having previously worked as a Senior Publicist at Blackstone Publishing and as a Publicist at Hachette Book Group.
Isabella has experience promoting books across numerous genres, literary fiction and commercial fiction, as well as nonfiction books across health and wellness, memoir, history, current events, major social issues, the sciences and the environment, and more. Isabella has earned national placements in outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Associated Press, NPR, Good Morning America, People, TIME, and many others. Isabella has recently led campaigns for Making the Presidency by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, The Mourner’s Bestiary by Eiren Caffall, The Disappeared by Rebecca J. Sanford, and Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson.
Isabella graduated magna cum laude with a degree in International Studies from Bryn Mawr College. She has delivered lectures with Authors Publish Magazine and participated in publishing panels at Swarthmore College. She writes in her free time, and her work has appeared in Your Impossible Voice, Bridge Eight Press, The Bookends Review, and Compulsive Reader.
Margot Flanders
Publicity & Marketing AssistantMargot Flanders (they/them) is the publicity and marketing assistant for Page One Media. They are new to the publishing industry, hailing from theatrical and events production. Their most recent role was with Denver Zoo as their events production coordinator, and they have experience working with Aguas Arts Ink, The American Shakespeare Center and the College of William & Mary.
Margot graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Theatre and English from the College of William & Mary. They originally hail from Staunton, Virginia, but now find themselves nestled in Philadelphia, surrounded by bookshelves. Margot spends their free time spoiling their cattle dog mix, Juniper, drinking tea and playing board games.
Sarah Russo
FounderSarah Russo (she/her) is a publishing professional with twenty years of experience working across the spectrum of publicity, communications, traditional marketing, social media marketing, branding, and business development. Sarah has worked in-house for Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and Oxford University Press, and as a consultant for organizations and companies like the National Book Critics Circle, the Association of University Presses, the American Booksellers Association, Scribd, Curtis Brown, Ltd., The Oxford American, And Other Stories, Coffee House Press, Europa Editions, and with authors too numerous to count but that include Simon Winchester, Jeffrey Sachs, Nadine Strossen, Benjamin Moser, Diane Cook, Kathleen Hall Jamison, James McPherson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valeria Luiselli, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Amartya Sen, Harvey J. Kaye, Richard White, Donna Freitas, Lydia Yuknavitch, and David Kilcullen.
Most recently, Sarah was the Global Head of Audience Engagement, Publicity, and Social Media for Oxford University Press, the largest not-for-profit publisher of trade and academic books in the world. She was also the Global Head of Trade Marketing from 2016–2018. Her work at OUP spanned trade books, the dictionaries program, journals, and online products as well as major launches for publications like the AIA Guide to the City of New York, Greater Gotham by Mike Wallace,
the 80th anniversary celebration of the Oxford English Dictionary, and programming the annual Bryant Park Oxford World’s Classics Book Club. She currently serves on the Board of And Other Stories and on the Lit Council for the Brooklyn Book Festival. In tandem with Suzanne Williams, she is the pro bono publicist for the National Book Critics Circle.
Sarah is a regular speaker at conferences, book festivals, and universities. She has been a speaker at Social Media Week, the Association of American Historians and the Organization of American Historians, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, Johns Hopkins University, The New School, Adelphi University, Pace University, and many others. You can connect with her on Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon or Instagram.
Laura Di Giovine
Publicity ManagerLaura Di Giovine (she/her) joined Page One Media in September 2022 as the Publicity Manager. A publishing professional with 15 years of industry experience, she started her career in publicity at Independent Publishers Group (IPG) and most recently worked at Smith Publicity, where she handled numerous book publicity and expert positioning campaigns.
Laura has a wide range of experience promoting authors across many genres, including fiction, business, health & wellness, politics, sports, and more. Laura has garnered national media placements for authors in outlets such as NBC’s TODAY, FOX & Friends, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Ebony, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal and Vanity Fair. Laura is currently working on The Postcard by Anne Berest (Europa Editions), Wolfish by Erica Berry (Flatiron), The Peaceful Transfer of Power by David Marchick (UVA Press), and promoting three conferences for Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath’s The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution (Harvard University Press).
She is also a freelance editor and writer, and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English Literature from the University of San Francisco. Born in Rome and a dual US-Italian citizen, she was raised in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys returning to the Pacific NW with her family every year.
Laci Durham
Associate Publicist and Assistant Marketing ManagerLaci Durham (she/her) is an Associate Marketing Manager and Associate Publicist for Page One Media. She joined the company in November 2021 as the Publicity and Marketing Assistant. With a passion for contemporary literature, marketing, and social media, Laci works to help our authors and their books find the audiences that most need them.
Laci leads all marketing efforts for Page One Media. A few of her current campaigns include a full marketing campaign for Making the Presidency by Lindsay Chervinsky, as well as influencer campaigns for Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson, Mothership by Greg Wrenn, and The Forgetters by Greg Sarris.
Some of her previous work includes: publicity campaigns for A Volga Tale by Guzel Yakhina (Europa Editions), Mrs. S by K Patrick (Europa Editions), and Alma: The Wind Rises by Timothée de Fombelle (Europa Editions). She has earned coverage in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vulture, and Cosmopolitan, among others. She has also lead influencer marketing campaigns for My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel (Europa Editions), The Postcard by Anne Berest (Europa Editions), Loot by Tania James (Knopf), and The Storm of Echoes: Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Series by Christelle Dabos (Europa Editions).
She is a native of Colorado with a degree in English Literature from the University of Northern Colorado and a graduate certificate in publishing from the Denver Publishing Institute. She now lives in Astoria, Queens with her dog Bingley. Laci is an active bookstagrammer and you can find her at @literature.and.lace on Instagram, on X (formerly Twitter) at @lacildurham, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
Poppy Hatrick
Publicity SpecialistPoppy Hatrick (she/her) is a part-time Publicity Specialist at Page One Media, where she supports and consults the agency across campaigns, as required. She previously worked full-time at Page One Media between the years 2020-2023, most recently as a Senior Publicist.
Poppy started her career at Oxford University Press, NY and has over six years of experience as a book publicist. She has managed a wide range of national campaigns including expert positioning, fiction, and non-fiction; working with international bestsellers to debuts. Poppy has secured top-tier coverage in outlets such as NPR’s Weekend Edition, The New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and TIME among others.
Poppy graduated with a BA in Communications from Bournemouth University in the UK. She is a dual UK-US citizen, and after years in the States, she now resides in her hometown Oxford; a city full of literary history! You can connect with her on X (formerly Twitter) or LinkedIn.
Isabella Nugent
Senior PublicistIsabella Nugent (she/her) is a Senior Publicist at Page One Media, where she manages publicity campaigns for a diverse list of bestselling authors and high-profile clients. She joined the team in June 2023 as a Senior Publicist, having previously worked as a Senior Publicist at Blackstone Publishing and as a Publicist at Hachette Book Group.
Isabella has nearly five years of experience promoting books across multiple genres, including literary fiction, health & wellness, memoir & autobiography, commercial fiction, and more. Isabella has earned national placements in outlets such as Good Morning America, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR Books, Tamron Hall Show, PEOPLE, among others.
Isabella graduated magna cum laude with a degree in International Studies from Bryn Mawr College. She writes in her free time, and her work has appeared in Your Impossible Voice and Bridge Eight Press.
Margot Flanders
Publicity & Marketing AssistantMargot Flanders (they/them) is the publicity and marketing assistant for Page One Media. They are new to the publishing industry, hailing from theatrical and events production. Their most recent role was with Denver Zoo as their events production coordinator, and they have experience working with Aguas Arts Ink, The American Shakespeare Center and the College of William & Mary.
Margot graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Theatre and English from the College of William & Mary. They originally hail from Staunton, Virginia, but now find themselves nestled in Philadelphia, surrounded by bookshelves. Margot spends their free time spoiling their cattle dog mix, Juniper, drinking tea and playing board games.