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Stephanie interviews audio producer Lizzie Goldsmith about her adaptation of Addie Zierman's memoir and the themes of faith and identity.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Stephanie sits down with Lizzie Goldsmith, is an audio producer and creator of the nonfiction audio drama adaptation of When We Were On Fire (based on Addie Zierman’s memoir). Her work explores faith, identity, grief, power, and the emotional reality of growing up in evangelical spaces. Lizzie is the creator of an audio drama adaptation of the 2013 deconstruction memoir When We Were On Fire by Addie Zierman. The series is a four-part production that ble...

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Host: Stephanie Warren

Guest: Lizzie Goldsmith

Topics covered

• faith
• identity
• grief
• evangelical spaces
• audio drama
• memoir

Keywords

• faith
• identity
• grief
• evangelical
• audio drama
• memoir
• Lizzie Goldsmith

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Books & works: When We Were On Fire

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