Hey. I’m Kelly Hardcastle Jones.

I’m a freelance audio producer and writer. Most recently, I worked for Slate making a season of Slow Burn and two seasons of One Year. Before that, I was the Senior Producer for two series: American Prodigies and Seizing Freedom. I just finished a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and am using that to start a research business called Sub[text] (hire us!).

Along with Chioke I’Anson and Claire Tacon, I developed, produced, edited, and hosted a podcast through NPR’s Storytelling Lab called Do Over about regret and the strange terror of the choices we make. My first real radio job was working as a producer for BackStory, which I joined after a brief and sordid affair with graduate-level philosophy in Guelph, Canada.

In Canada, I started a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast called Pioneer Radio, got some training at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, won a Third Coast Short Doc award for a three-minute piece about poutine, produced a documentary for the BBC about firearm suicide, and had a baby.

In my non-audio time, I do kung fu and coach gymnastics and bake a ton of pastries.