Meg Bowles

Meg Bowles is a Senior Director and Co Host of the Peabody Award winning Moth Radio Hour. Like many members of The Moth staff, she began as a volunteer in 1997, helping curate early Mainstage events and teaching storytelling workshops. In 2002 she left to work for Discovery Communications, but when Moth Founder George Dawes Green invited her to return in 2005 to help curate the Mainstage, she could not turn it down.

While directing stories for the Mainstage, Bowles has worked with a wide range of storytellers, including a NASA astronaut who commanded the first shuttle mission after the loss of Challenger, a doctor who once saved Mother Teresa’s life, a member of Churchill’s Secret Army who trained spies during the Second World War, an innocent man who spent 18 years on death row, a Nobel Laureate, a New York City police detective, a lobster fisherman, neuroscientists, veterans, musicians, chefs, fugitives, parents, and many others who have shared experiences that are sometimes ordinary and often extraordinary. Their willingness to speak openly about their lives and imperfections reflects the humanity that connects us to one another.