Joby Ogwyn

Joby Ogwyn is a world-renowned alpinist and BASE jumper. He first summited Everest when he was 25, becoming the youngest American to make it to the top.

The Ascent

by Joby Ogwyn

A climber attempts to reach the top of Mt. Everest.

Morgan Laketa

Morgan Laketa is a junior at Milton High School in Georgia. She performed her story at a Moth High School StorySLAM in 2012.

The Deer & I

by Morgan Laketa

Morgan Laketa is alone and on a barefoot nature walk when she happens upon a buck.

My Post-Nuclear Family

by Andrew Solomon

A man describes his circuitous route to becoming a dad.

Marika Hughes

Marika Hughes is a cellist who has performed with Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Sean Lennon, and many others. Two solo CDs of her work were released in 2011.

The Drip

by Marika Hughes

A cellist makes a disturbing discovery.

Michael J. Massimino

Michael J. Massimino has logged a total of 30 hours and 4 minutes during four space walks. A graduate of Columbia University and MIT, Michael is now the Executive Director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University.

A View of the Earth

by Michael J. Massimino

An astronaut details his high stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Haunted Freezer

by George Dawes Green

The founder of The Moth details a bizarre interruption during a poker game in Georgia.

Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs is a philosopher who, through her activism, has been a part of every major social movement in the US for the past seventy years: from Labor, to Civil Rights, Black Power, Women's Rights, Environmental Justice and Community Building. Her most recent book is titled The Next American Revolution.

Partners in Struggle

by Grace Lee Boggs

A woman is inspired to become an activist in the 1940s and meets her future husband.

Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett is the host of the Peabody Award-winning radio show On Being, and the author of the books Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters—and How to Talk About It and the New York Times Best Seller Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit.

Gaggy's Blessing

by Krista Tippett

A woman circles back to appreciate her strict minister grandfather.

Scott M Herman

Scott M Herman is a playwright and storyteller based in Seattle, Washington. His plays have been presented around the country, and he is a frequent storyteller at Seattle's Moth StorySLAM. He is currently co-editor of lowercase lit, an online magazine focusing on literary non-fiction.

Failing to Climb Mountains

by Scott M Herman

A man's hiking trip in Ireland goes right by going wrong.

Chris Rasheed

Chris Rasheed grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He teaches 8th at Meyzeek Middle School and is the supervising teacher for a Saturday school program that caters to at-risk African-American boys. Chris also performs spoken word poetry and is a musician.

The Finish Line

by Chris Rasheed

Chris Rasheed is the inexperienced coach of a losing basketball team.

Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy is host of The Moth podcast, a longtime host and performer at Moth live events, and has spent much of the last fifteen years traveling the world performing and writing. His stories have appeared in GQ Magazine, on the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, in McSweeney's, and in numerous print anthologies. He is the author of three books, Loser Goes First (Random House/Crown 2003), Rock On (Algonquin 2008, a Times of London Book of The Year, series rights bought by HBO) and American Spirit (Houghton Mifflin/Little 2013, a Publishers Weekly starred review). He has been a guest lecturer at Yale, and a guest author at The Harvard Lampoon in celebration of his work anthologized in The Best of McSweeney's Humor. He lives in downtown New York, where he is currently working on another screenplay.

In Deep Guano

by Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy travels to Indonesia to find giant snakes and live in the moment.