Catherine Burns

Catherine Burns is a Peabody Award-winning director, storytelling doula, consultant and public speaker. She was the long-time artistic director of The Moth from 2003-2023, where she was a host and producer of The Moth Radio Hour. As one of the lead directors on the Moth's Mainstage, she has helped many hundreds of people craft their stories, including a New York City sanitation worker, a Nobel Laureate, the Tower of London’s Ravenmaster, a jaguar tracker, and an exonerated prisoner. She is co-author of the New York Times Best Seller How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth (Crown), and the editor of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed books The Moth: 50 True Stories, All These Wonders, and Occasional Magic. Born and raised in Alabama, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and young son. Find her on Instagram @thecatherineburns.