Erica Heilman

Bio

Erica Heilman is the producer of Rumble Strip, an independently-made podcast in East Calais, Vermont. Interviews, documentaries, occasional experiments. She is the winner of a Peabody Award, a Third Coast Award, and an inaugural Independent Media Institute Award. Her deeply reported audio storytelling has been heard on Radiolab, Snap Judgment, BBC, CBC, and on major NPR affiliates. In 2022, The New Yorker named Rumble Strip the best podcast of the year, describing it as “an endlessly inventive, independently produced podcast about her Vermont community, revealing, through an almost miraculous level of attention, what life anywhere is all about.”