Erika Lantz

Erika Lantz, a 2024 McKnight Media Artist Fellowship Recipient, is a documentary artist and musician in Minneapolis. Her audio stories merge music and metaphor with investigative journalism to express things that are hard to say—whether because emotions have been too ineffable to articulate, or because very real forces and systems have coerced people into silence. Critics have lauded her “linguistic arabesques” and work that is at times “deliberately discombobulating, spinning and whirling as it feeds us provocative spoonfuls of setting and character.” She’s received Third Coast and National Edward R. Murrow awards. Her series THE TURNING was called the No. 1 Podcast of the Year by The Atlantic and was the first podcast ever to receive the Livingston Award for International Reporting.