Helena de Groot is the editor of the WQXR podcast The NY Phil Story: Made in New York. She's also host and producer of the Poetry Foundation podcast Poetry Off the Shelf, a bi-weekly interview podcast with debut poets and Pulitzer Prize winners Jericho Brown and Natasha Tretheway or Guggenheim Fellows Carolyn Forché and Ross Gay, as well as senior producer and sound designer of the Paris Review Podcast, senior producer of the Pushkin audiobook Wild and Precious: An Ode to Mary Oliver, editor of the WNYC podcast Aria Code, and has contributed to This American Life. She teaches a seminar on interviewing at Columbia University.