Melanie Sevcenko is an audio editor & producer, 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, PRX, Marketplace (APM), and more.
CONTENT & DIALOGUE EDITING . MIXING
SOUND DESIGN . FIELD RECORDING . PRODUCING
REPORTING . 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 in Prizren, Kosovo, as well as sat on the jury for its international competition.
As a sound artist, Melanie’s audio collages comprises 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.
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 by the publisher. She has also attended writing residencies in coastal Washington state and was awarded a Portland Arts Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) to support her second poetry collection.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Melanie chased stories in Berlin, Germany for almost a decade before relocating to Portland, OR.
