Melanie Sevcenko is an audio editor & producer, reporter, and writer with over a decade of experience in storytelling through public radio, podcast, and documentary film. Her work has taken her across North America, Central America, and Europe and can be found on The Guardian, NPR, PRX, Marketplace (APM), and more.
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Melanie Sevcenko is an audio editor & producer, reporter, and writer.
She is currently a producer and editor at Live Wire, a weekly arts & culture public radio program and podcast from PRX. She’s also a freelance reporter for Marketplace and The Guardian and previously reported for the NPR, BBC World Service, CBC, Deutsche Welle, and Monocle Radio (M24), among others.
She records, edits, mixes, and voices almost all of her radio reports.
From 2011 to 2014, she produced Berlin Stories for NPR, a multimedia journal about the German capital broadcast on NPR Berlin (currently the podcast Common Ground Berlin).
Melanie has a background in film production and programming and has worked for a number of film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. She also lived in Prague and helped develop and promote Eastern European documentaries for the Institute of Documentary Film. In addition, Melanie taught film criticism at DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo, as well as sat on the jury for its international competition.
Melanie is also an accomplished poet. Her debut poetry collection I Still Go to Bed with Water was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022. One of its poems, "Six Months at Most," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Melanie chased stories in Berlin, Germany for almost a decade before relocating to Portland, OR, where she currently resides.
