Liza Yeager is a radio producer and writer. Her work is informed by archives, landscapes, oral history, and everyday sounds.
Liza’s audio documentaries have aired on BBC’s Short Cuts, Invisibilia, 99 Percent Invisible, WNYC’s Nancy, Planet Money, BirdNote, and Latino USA, among other outlets. Her story Tell Me How You Love, a print piece built from dozens of testimony-style interviews, was Orion Magazine‘s Winter 2023 cover story.
An independent editor and sound designer, Liza has worked with New York Magazine, Invisibilia, Radiolab, NPR’s Story Lab, All Things Considered, Planet Money, and many other outlets to produce and develop sound-rich, formally innovative radio documentaries. (For a complete list of Liza’s client work, click here.)
Liza has spoken about and taught radio in a variety of settings, including at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the King School Museum of Contemporary Art, The Public Radio & WBRU’s WAVs Conference, Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Chicago. Her work has been supported through residencies at Monson Arts and Art Farm Nebraska, as well as with scholarships from the Penland School of Craft.
Liza grew up in Oregon and holds a B.A. in American Studies from Brown University. She is also an alum of Oral History Summer School‘s intensive training course.
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DIALOGUES ON NEW ROMANCE IN NEW CLIMATES
Co-written with Elizabeth Rush for Orion Magazine.
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THE RIGHT COLOR CANDLE
Produced for BBC’s Short Cuts.
Featuring Annegret Curtis, Ed Dadey, and Jan Gehmlich.
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ALIEN JERKY SOLD HERE
Produced with Stephen Cassidy Jones for The Dig Presents.
Featuring Mark Pilkington, Valerie Kuletz, and Trevor Paglen.
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RACHEL CARSON AND THE VEERY
On letter-writing, new language, queerness, and climate catastrophe. Featuring Lida Maxwell.
Produced for BirdNote.
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THE DIG PRESENTS
Stories about political movements, feelings, and histories.
Co-edited and created with Mitchell Johnson for The Dig and Jacobin Magazine.
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ANTIBODY
Thirteen stories about COVID and social movements. Featuring Samuel Delany, Nick Estes, Andrea Long Chu, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and many other guests and contributors.
Co-edited and created with Mitchell Johnson for The Dig and Jacobin Magazine.
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RAISING DEVENDRA
An artist falls in love with a chatbot, on purpose.
Produced for NPR’s Invisibilia.
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ATOMIC TATTOOS
Cold war anxiety, my grandma, and a plan to create a walking blood bank.
Produced for 99 Percent Invisible.
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THE LONE LEGISLATOR
In 1919, one politician tries to fight police violence on the US-Mexico border.
Featuring Monica Muñoz Martinez.
Produced for Latino USA.
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