Moth Storytellers
Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro has become a favorite and regular on NPR's This American Life
Tig Notaro has become a favorite and regular on NPR's This American Life
by Tig Notaro
A comedian must build a new relationship with her stepfather after her mother's sudden death.
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.
by Joby Ogwyn
A climber attempts to reach the top of Mt. Everest.
Morgan Laketa is a junior at Milton High School in Georgia. She performed her story at a Moth High School StorySLAM in 2012.
Morgan Laketa is alone and on a barefoot nature walk when she happens upon a buck.
A man describes his circuitous route to becoming a dad.
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.
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.
An astronaut details his high stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
The founder of The Moth details a bizarre interruption during a poker game in Georgia.
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.
A woman is inspired to become an activist in the 1940s and meets her future husband.
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.
A woman circles back to appreciate her strict minister grandfather.
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.
A man's hiking trip in Ireland goes right by going wrong.
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.
Chris Rasheed is the inexperienced coach of a losing basketball team.