History Revealed – Mary Lucia

Presented by Ramsey County Historical Society

Landmark Center, 75 West 5th Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102

Wednesday December 10th, 2025

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Tickets $10, Ticket and Book bundle $35

Register Here

RCHS is excited and honored to host Mary Lucia for an evening of conversation revolving around her recently released memoir What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To. Hosted by Andrea Swensson and followed by a Q&A, attendees will have the opportunity to ask the legendary Twin Cities DJ questions. What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To will be available to purchase that evening or bundle your ticket and book ahead of time to insure you get your copy.

Conversation moderated by Andrea Swensson

About What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To

For Mary Lucia, becoming a rock DJ meant connecting with fans through a shared love of music and deep cuts. But for one listener, that connection became a dangerous obsession, catapulting Lucia into the terrifying three-year nightmare that she chronicles in this raw, wry, and profoundly courageous memoir. From the good, bad, and weird of growing up in her eccentric family to drugs, death, and dogs, Lucia finally shares her life on her own terms in What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To.

Mary Lucia is a media broadcast personality, writer, actor, and voiceover artist. She worked at The Current from 2005 to 2022 and was well known for her unconventional style and expansive music knowledge. She hosted the local music show Popular Creeps, twice a Minnesota Music Award winner for Best Locally Produced Show, and she was voted best FM radio personality by City Pages seven times. She is currently the program advisor at the University of Minnesota’s Radio K.

Andrea Swensson is an author, podcast host, and music journalist in Minneapolis. She hosts the Official Prince Podcast and has written for numerous publications, including NPR Music, Pitchfork, the Star Tribune, City Pages, and Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current, where she previously hosted “The Local Show.” Her first book, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound, also from the University of Minnesota Press, won a 2018 Minnesota Book Award. Swensson also is the Editor for Ramsey County Historical Society.