Liza Yeager is a documentary radio producer, writer, and editor. She is co-editor-in-chief of Signal Hill, a new audio magazine.

Liza has worked for Invisibilia, Radiolab, Planet Money, New York Magazine, MoMA, the Brooklyn Public Library, Marfa Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and The Dig, among many other institutions and projects.

Her stories have aired on BBC’s Short Cuts, Invisibilia, 99 Percent Invisible, WNYC’s Nancy, Planet Money, BirdNote, and Latino USA. Tell Me How You Love: Dialogues on New Romance in New Climates, a print piece Liza co-wrote with Elizabeth Rush, was Orion Magazine‘s Winter 2024 cover story.

Liza is a 2024-2025 Watershed Fellow through the Public Humanities Collaboratory at Oregon State University. In 2020, she created and edited Antibody, a short-run audio series from The Dig, which was a finalist for a Third Coast Best Documentary award.

Liza has spoken about and taught radio in a variety of settings, including at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Oral History Summer School, the King School Museum of Contemporary Art, The Public Radio’s WAVs Conference, Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Oberlin College, 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 and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

Liza grew up in Oregon and holds a B.A. in American Studies from Brown University. She is an alum of Oral History Summer School‘s intensive training course.

Email: liza.yeager@gmail.com
Instagram: @lizayeager
Bluesky: @lizayeager.bsky.social
Twitter: @liza_yeager

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