Radio Producer for NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR
| Bio: Angela Elam, producer/host of UMKC's literary radio show New Letters on the Air has worked in public radio since 1988, but she got her start as a reader for Radio Deutsche Welle in Cologne, Germany in 1981. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia in dramatic writing. Immediately upon graduation, she was seduced into public radio at WUGA-FM in Athens, Georgia where she produced literary programs and later served as host and technical producer of the Public Radio News Directors Award-winning local magazine show, Centerlines. Elam has also produced radio dramas and special features, including some freelance stories for National Public Radio, one of which "Train Whistles or Horns?" won the PRNDI Award for best used of sound in 1994. She has served as producer and host of New Letters on the Air since 1996, and enjoys using her playwriting skills to shape the dialogue within her interviews. |
