Summary
Robyn Crummer is a publisher and senior instructor with over a decade of hands-on experience launching and marketing trade books, currently leading Ooligan Press and supervising 60 graduate students through a full publishing cycle. She teaches a broad suite of publishing courses at Portland State University and brings practical classroom instruction informed by active press leadership. Her background spans editorial, design, foreign rights, printing, and publicity, and she has guided best-selling self-published authors as well as projects at established houses. Robyn pairs strategic marketing and project management skills developed running her own consultancy and directing marketing at ITRevolution with deep production knowledge across offset, POD, ebook, and audio formats. Based in Portland, she leverages a rare combination of academic training (MA in Writing and Book Publishing) and entrepreneurial practice to bridge pedagogy and industry. A less obvious strength is her knack for scaling student-run publishing into professional-quality releases, turning pedagogy into real-world book launches.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communication and Women's Studies, BA, Communication and Women's Studies at Southwestern University
MA, Writing and Book Publishing, MA, Writing and Book Publishing at Portland State University