Mary Oishi began her career in public radio at KVNF-FM in Paonia, Colorado in 1995.  There she hosted Wang Dang Doodle, a blues music, interview, and education program.  She was part of a collective of women who alternately hosted One Woman's Perspective.  Every other week she hosted The Medicine Show, a Sunday morning show of "healing" instrumentals.  She also substitute hosted numerous electic music programs, and was a guest on Parental Discretion during Child Abuse Prevention Week.

From 1999 to the present, Mary Oishi frequently guest-hosts Freeform on KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, NM, and occasionally guest hosts The Blues Show and Women's Focus on KUNM.  She made numerous guest appearances on KUNM reading her poetry, and the day after the State of the Union Address 2004, delivered a satirical State of the Division Address that is archived at www.kunm.org/culture and is on her CD, kiss the world awake.

She did extensive voiceover work at KUNM-FM.  She won 1st Place from the New Mexico Associated Press for her voiceover on the radio documentary, Fire On The Mountain, produced by Kent Patterson.

During her radio career, she has interviewed Koko Taylor, Janis Ian, Guy Davis, Eric Bibb, Charlie Musselwhite, Laura Love, Mollie O'Brien, and other musicians.  In addition, she has interviewed Hiroshima survivor, Shigeko Sasamori, AIM activist Madonna Thunderhawk, playwright Karen Jones Meadows, and numerous other writers and activists.

She reads one of her short fictions, "Appalachian Confessions," on Albuzerxque Volume 16, a CD collection of Albuquerque writers and musicians.  It can be ordered by contacting the producer at zerxpress.

Contact Mary Oishi for voiceover work.