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, September 8 Featured Artists:
Natalie Disney, Jodi Eichelberger, Alice Nelson
Natalie Disney
Natalie Disney earned her MFA in creative writing from Boise State University, where she served as Associate Editor of The Idaho Review. Her work has been published in The Florida Review and The Mississippi Review and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN America Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Natalie teaches creative writing at Boise State University and The Cabin Center for Readers and Writers. In 2023 she was named the inaugural Boise City Writer in Residence. She lives in the Boise foothills with her wife, where she is at work on her first novel. Her instagram is @nataliedisney.
Jodi Eichelberger
Jodi Eichelberger is best known for his part in the original Broadway cast of Avenue Q and for his role as Stingy in the international children’s television show LazyTown which aired in the US on CBS, NBC, Nickelodeon, Sprout, and Netflix. He also worked with the Jim Henson Company in film and on stage. He recently published a book of personal narratives including stories from all these experiences titled Audience of One: Stories of Stage, Screen, and Solitude available wherever you order books. Since returning to Boise he has directed and performed onstage at Alley Repertory Theater and performed at Boise Contemporary Theater. Jodi is the Producing Artistic Director of Story Story Night and the Program Director of Surel’s Place.
Instagram: @jodi.eichelberger
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Jodi-Eichelberger-The-Acorn-People/100063678504668/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jodi.eichelberger
Alice Nelson
Alice is a published author who has written for the online literary journal Short Fiction Break.
She has also been a featured artist for the literary non-profit organization Death Rattle that is dedicated to providing public platforms to underserved writers. Alice has also been featured performer at Story Story Night, a live storytelling program that presents true stories based on a theme.
Alice was the host of two original short story podcasts, A Creative Mind Fiction, and Small Town Stories, from 2016 to 2020. In February of 2023 Alice was a featured reader on the MING Studios Podcast, My Morning, and did a live reading of her stories at MING Studios. In March of that same year, Alice was a featured storyteller at Podfort, part of the Treefort Music Festival in Boise.
And in February of 2024, Alice was a performer in the staged reading of Lynn Nottage’s Play, ‘Intimate Apparel’ at the Boise Contemporary Theater.
You can contact Alice at alicernelson@gmail.com. On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/authoralicenelson/. Or on Threads @authoralicenelson
