This May to October, Campfire Stories returns to the Modern!
Join us around the fires in the Modern courtyard every second Sunday to experience this intimate storytelling event.
Sunday, May 12 Featured Artists:
J.R. Rivero Kinsey, Sarah Sentilles, Taryn Birdsall
J.R. Rivero Kinsey
J.R. Rivero Kinsey, otherwise known as Rebeca, is a lifelong musician and singer who took a detour into writing about nine years ago. While her true love is fiction, she has been mired in the land of memoir for an extended period. Her book in progress, Jem: Story of an Irregular Isolation, chronicles the emotional impact of her search for her father through a series of illustrated vignettes. Rebeca lives in Idaho City with her cat, Philip, in a vintage RV named Emerald, on a tiny little piece of land which she doesn’t own, but has nonetheless named Balpinit Creek.
Sarah Sentilles
Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of five books, including Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Idaho Book of the Year. Her book Draw Your Weapons won the 2018 PEN-America Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Orion, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale and master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She teaches writing workshops to help support artists’ and writers’ creativity. She is the co-founder of The Alliance of Idaho, which protects the human rights of immigrants.
Taryn Birdsall
Taryn Birdsall is the author of the poetry collection The Anatomist. She lives in Boise, Idaho with her husband and two children and teaches in the creative writing program at Boise State University.
