Sarah Fenske
“St. Louis On The Air” Host/ProducerSarah Fenske served as host of St. Louis on the Air from July 2019 until June 2022. Before that, she spent twenty years in newspapers, working as a reporter, columnist and editor in Cleveland, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and St. Louis.
She won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for her work in Phoenix exposing corruption at the local housing authority. She also won numerous awards for column writing, including multiple first place wins from the Arizona Press Club, the Association of Women in Journalism (the Clarion Awards) and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
From 2015 to July 2019, Sarah was editor in chief of St. Louis' alt-weekly, the Riverfront Times. She and her husband, John, are raising their two young daughters and ill-behaved border terrier in Lafayette Square.
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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker shares her thoughts on wrongful convictions in Missouri and the motion to vacate conviction filed in the Michael Politte case in Washington County. -
St. Louis author Gabe Montesanti details in her new memoir how roller derby helped her come to terms with the trauma of her childhood and find a new way to live. -
Thor Axe began as a side project for So Many Dynamos, but the prog rock band has its own story. -
Ben Westhoff was paired with Jorell Cleveland through Big Brothers Big Sisters in St. Louis. Eleven years later, Cleveland was murdered. -
Alan Achkar is now executive editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his second stint at the daily. -
Opera Theatre of St. Louis debuts ‘Harvey Milk,’ ‘Awakenings’ -
Cellist and composer Jody Redhage Ferber is debuting EcoTones at the Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center. -
St. Louis-based poet Jason Sommer’s book “Shmuel’s Bridge” explores his father’s experience surviving the Holocaust — and that of an uncle who died just outside Auschwitz. -
Wash U professor John Hendrix depicts the Holy Spirit as a friendly blue ghost in his new graphic novel. -
The St. Louis company Babyation spent six years working to bring its breast pump to market. -
St. Louis Public Radio hopes to raise money to spare birds from deadly collisions with its building. -
For Arundhati Roy, the St. Louis Literary Award allowed her to see the river of her childhood dreamsSt. Louis University honors Arundhati Roy at the Sheldon Concert Hall on Thursday.
