The Moth Creators & Guests

Jodi Powell is a producer and director at The Moth.

Sarah Austin Jenness is a host of The Moth Podcast.

Marc Sollinger a podcast producer and writer, who is known for co-creating "Archive 81" and producing "The Moth"

George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth and Unchained, is an internationally celebrated author.

Michelle Jalowski is a director and producer at The Moth.

Jacoby Cochran is an award-winning writer, professor, master storyteller, and host of City Cast Chicago.

Jay Allison is an independent public radio producer and broadcast journalist.

Kate Tellers is an author, storyteller, host, and Director of MothWorks at The Moth.

Catherine Burns is The Moth's long-time Artistic Director.

Meg Bowles is a Senior Producer and Host of Moth Radio Hour. Meg started as a volunteer in 1997 helping to curate early Mainstage events and teaching storytelling workshops. In 2002 she was pulled away by Discovery Communications, mainly because she needed the paycheck, but when Moth Founder, George Dawes Green asked her to return to help curate the Mainstage in 2005, she found it impossible to say no.

Christina Norman is the chief creative officer at The Moth.

Jenifer Hixson is a senior director host of The Moth Podcast.

Julia Purcell is a producer at The Moth Podcast.

Danielle Dardashti is an Emmy award-winning documentary producer/writer, a Moth StorySLAM champion, a former on-air TV reporter, the author of several books, and has held senior branded content roles at Meredith and Tribune. Danielle is also co-founder of Storyboom, a live storytelling show. And she’s a 2023 fellow in the Digital Storytellers Lab, where she producing an audio documentary called The Nightingale of Iran with her sister, singer Galeet Dardashti, about her family's history.

Bethany Van Delft’s “hip and grounded, laid back delivery” has earned her the honor of per- forming stand-up comedy at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, SF Sketchfest, and All Jane Festival, among others. She produces award-winning comedy and storytelling shows, her monthly show “Artisanal Comedy” was named “one of the top indie nights to check out". Boston Magazine named her "Best Comic" in 2019 and 2020. She regularly hosts The Moth storytelling events and her mainstage story is included in The Moth's book, All These Wonders. She also co-hosts "PARENTAOLGIC", Nova's new docuseries from PBS Digital Stu- dios.

Maile Meloy is an author of short stories and novels.Meloy’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Short Stories, and on This American Life and Selected Shorts. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, Sunset, and O, and she wrote for the Netflix series “The Society.” Her first book, the collection “Half in Love,” was published in 2002.Meloy has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two California Book Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mark Redmond has worked in the field of caring for homeless and at-risk youth for over 40 years. Currently, he is executive director of Spectrum Youth & Family Services in Burlington VT.Redmond's writing has appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Commonweal, The National Catholic Reporter, and America. His first memoir, "The Goodness Within: Reaching out to Troubled Teens with Love and Compassion," was published in 2004. His second book, "Called: A Memoir," was published in 2021.Redmond has told stories for The Moth Radio Hour, The Lapse, Strangers, and RISK! His one-person show on Broadway, "So Shines a Good Deed," premiered in 2019.