I Knew You Were Black

by Carol Daniel

A radio-host is at the center of a debate of identity.

Beware The Fun Nun

by Shana Creaney

A Catholic school student is singled out by an unexpected person.

The Yellow Corvette

by Dennis Oulahan

A teacher is overcome on a day of celebration.

The Moth Staff Spotlight: Chloe

Laura Zimmermann

Laura is a writer, a reader, and a storyteller. Her debut YA novel, My Eyes Are Up Here (Dutton, 2020), won a Minnesota Book Award and is available in five languages. (Or so they tell her. She can only read one of them.) Her next book, Do This One Thing For Me, will be out in August 2023. In the meantime, you can sometimes find her telling true and usually sort of embarrassing stories on stage.

A Shoulder (Bag) to Cry On

by Laura Zimmermann

Laura Zimmermann loses herself...and her stuff in Portugal.

David Cole

David Cole was raised in a small town in Texas.  He says that when he’s not pretending to be a private detective, he practices tax law in Houston.

Niccolo Aeed

Niccolo Aeed is a writer and director based in New York. He's half the comedy duo Marina & Nicco, and recently co-wrote and directed the plays Unpacking: A Ghost Story Told in the Dark and Room 4.

Caroline Abilat Lozirah

Caroline works as a Program Officer at Actionaid Uganda.

It's a Small World After All

by David Cole

David Cole does all that he can to return to sender.

Welcome Home

by Niccolo Aeed

Niccolo Aeed faces scrutiny at the airport. 

Something Good

by Denise Scheuermann

Denise Scheuermann shares a ritual of good hope.

The Woman in the Mirror

by Caroline Abilat Lozirah

Caroline Abilat Lozirah struggles to show herself kindness after the birth of her first child.

The Kindness of Strangers

In this hour we delve into the goodness of humanity through acts both small and large. A tourist has a major setback while on vacation; a holiday gift exchange is botched; and a nurse in a fertility clinic secretly blesses hopeful couples. Those stories and more. Hosted by The Moth's Artistic Director, Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Laura Zimmermann loses herself...and her stuff in Portugal.

David Cole does all that he can to return to sender.

Niccolo Aeed faces scrutiny at the airport. 

Denise Scheuermann shares a ritual of good hope.

Caroline Abilat Lozirah struggles to show herself kindness after the birth of her first child.

Ed Gavagan is called upon to show grace to the boys who stabbed him. 

Andy Fischer-Price

Andy Fischer-Price is a musician and an actor who - for now - lives in Los Angeles. He plays bass and sings in the psychedelic rock group Smoky Knights, is a founding member of folk trio The Good Mad, and occasionally tours with pop-duo Heffron Drive. His most recent work as an actor includes playing a Christian rock singer on ABC's Modern Family and playing a woman in Cameron Fife's Killing Diaz, a dark comedy feature due out in 2017. Andy and his sister, Katie Rose, are currently working with San Diego nonprofit SherpaCares.org to rebuild the Himalayan English Boarding School in Lukla, Nepal after it was destroyed in the 2015 earthquakes. The new school will be dedicated to their late father, Seattle mountaineer Scott Fischer.

The Magical Fuzzy Worm

by Sofija Stefanovic

A young girl realizes her communist Serbian upbringing was lacking on a stopover in the beautiful Singapore airport on the way to her family’s new life in Australia.

Since Dad

by Andy Fischer-Price

A son learns to cope with the dramatized death of his famous mountain climber father.

A World of Difference: Andy Fischer-Price and Sofija Stefanovic

A son learns to cope with the dramatized death of his famous mountain climber father and a young girl realizes her communist Serbian upbringing was lacking on a stopover in the beautiful Singapore airport on the way to her family’s new life in Australia.

Cynthia Shelby-Lane

Cynthia Shelby-Lane is a doctor, humanitarian, speaker and comedienne. As a physician, she is committed to a healthier world She believes that  “laughter is good medicine”.

Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay MBE is the author of several books of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, and plays. He was an official poet for the London Olympics. His Landmark Poems are installed throughout Manchester and London, in venues such as The Royal Festival Hall and The Olympic Park. Sissay is associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, and inaugural trustee of World Book Night.