Campfire Stories Season 12 Finale is Sunday, October 11! Join us under the yellowing ginkgos and around the fires in the Modern courtyard to experience this intimate storytelling event. Reservations are available for seating 6:15 – 7pm. Visit themodernbar.com now to secure a table! Walk-ins welcome.
Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, Rebecca Evans and Tomas Baiza. As usual, we are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team!
Sunday, October 11
Doors @ 6pm
Show 7 – 9
Host: Rebecca Evans
Artists: Aurora Stone Mehlman, Sequoia Barakah, Dave Yasuda, Ryan Marsh, Desmond Everest Fuller
Theme: Freaks & Beasts (or Beasts & Freaks)
Aurora Stone Mehlman is a fiction writer living in Boise, Idaho. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at the Show and Tell Residency funded by the Alexa Rose Foundation. In 2024, she won second place in The Master’s Review Summer Short Story Awards for New Writers. She teaches English at Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho, graduated with an MFA in Fiction from BSU in 2021, is raising a daughter, and works for the local literary nonprofit The Cabin, where she helps kids in juvenile detention learn to express themselves by writing creatively.
Sequoia Barakah is a multi-instrumentalist and maker of sounds, working primarily with nylon string guitar and 12-string kamale ngoni. His sound is meditative, maybe even simple, and holds layers of meaning. He is currently recording his debut album, One, an archive of who he is today, left raw instead of resolved, a record of becoming more than a finished portrait. https://www.sequoiabarakah.com/
Dave Yasuda is deeply engaged in food writing, culinary storytelling, and the food community in Boise and beyond. His interests span restaurant culture, outdoor cooking, regional food traditions and an occasional essay about cycling. He serves as director of Foodfort, the culinary branch of the Treefort Music Fest. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) from University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. His work has appeared Bicycling, Wired, The Tiferet Journal, Charged and The NY Times Wirecutter. You can read his monthly chef profiles in the ID Guide and his articles appear periodically in From Boise.
Ryan Marsh is an artist and community builder in Boise Idaho. He founded Backyard Artists in 2022, an arts nonprofit for emerging artists in the Treasure Valley. His work can be found in Allegory Ridge. He is currently working on a tandem book with his friend.
Desmond Everest Fuller is a first-generation college graduate and writer from the Pacific Northwest. He earned an MFA in fiction at Boise State University, was a 2023 Sun Valley Writers Conference Fellow, and a 2021 Glenn Balch Award recipient. His work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and appears in Greensboro Review, Permafrost, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Grist, Nashville Review, Florida Review, and elsewhere.