Sara McCrea is a print and audio journalist from Boulder, CO, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. As a producer, she has created podcasts
for companies including Pushkin Industries, Slate Magazine, Audible, and TED Audio Collective.
Sara wrote and produced
“McCartney: A Life in Lyrics”,
a 24-episode songwriting masterclass and biography compiled from an archive
of conversations between poet Paul Muldoon and Paul McCartney. The show was acclaimed by Apple, Amazon, and publications including
Time,
The Guardian, and
Financial Times.
Listen:
- Jenny Wren / Blackbird
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- A Day In The Life
- Live and Let Die
- Here Today
Sara researches the relationship between narrative form and environmental change. She is an
interdisciplinary artist
and creative producer at the
Institute for Climate Sound and Society
at MetaLab [at] Harvard, where she is exploring how new sound technologies might enable nonhuman subjects to have narrative agency. She was a 2023-2024 scholar in the
New School of the Anthropocene,
a London-based environmental humanities collective.
She founded the
Early Career Audio Collective (ECAC),
which provides resources and
mutual aid
to emerging radio and podcast creators. You can join the collective
here.
She is a graduate of Wesleyan University’s
College of Letters, an interdisciplinary humanities
program studying literature, history, philosophy, and foreign language.
