About me
Taryn Roeder is VP, Publicity at Abrams Books, leading the publicity departments for the Adult and Children’s divisions. Taryn has twenty+ years of experience in book publicity and has worked with major figures in politics, science, art, and music, as well as on literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. Taryn was previously Senior Director of Publicity at HarperCollins and Director of Publicity at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She has worked with New York Times bestselling authors Temple Grandin, Guy Raz, Sinead O’Connor, Lori Gottlieb, Keith O'Brien, and Lesley M.M. Blume. She led the publicity campaigns for many beloved debut novels including Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and We the Animals by Justin Torres, as well as on Adrienne Brodeur’s highly acclaimed memoir Wild Game. While it is true that some books are easier to promote than others, Taryn swears she loves all of her authors equally.
