Melanie Sevcenko is a radio-maker, reporter, writer, and sound artist 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 at The Guardian, NPR, CBC, Transom, Marketplace, and more.
AUDIO EDITING . MIXING . REPORTING
SOUND DESIGN . FIELD RECORDING . PRODUCING
. FEATURE & NEWS WRITING
Melanie Sevcenko is currently a producer and editor at Live Wire, a weekly arts & culture public radio program and podcast from PRX. As a freelancer, she’s reported for Marketplace (American Public Media), The Guardian, NPR, BBC World Service, CBC, and Deutsche Welle, amongst others.
She records, edits, mixes, and voices the majority 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 KCRW Berlin).
With a background in film production and programming, Melanie has worked for a number of film festivals — including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival — and also lived in Prague where she assisted in developing and promoting Eastern European documentaries for the Institute of Documentary Film. In addition, she taught film criticism at DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Prizren, Kosovo, as well as sat on the jury for its international competition.
As a sound artist, Melanie’s audio collages comprise field recordings, poetry, original music, sampling, and more. Her pieces have been featured on Transom, a public radio platform the fosters of the art of audio storytelling, as well as famed community radio station WFMU, and selected for 2026 edition of the radio art festival Radiophrenia.
Melanie is also an accomplished poet. Her debut poetry collection I Still Go to Bed with Water was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022. She has also earned writing residencies in coastal Washington state and was awarded a 2025 Portland Arts Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), as well as a residency in the 2026 Jack Straw Artist Support Program for her forthcoming poetry and audio project Educated Ear.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Melanie chased stories in Berlin, Germany for almost a decade before relocating to Portland, OR.
