Campfire Stories: Latin@s in America

Upcoming Date and Time

• Sunday, Sep 14, 2025  7pm - 9pm

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Campfire Stories returns to the Modern for it’s 11th season! Join us under the ginkgos in the Modern courtyard every second Sunday to experience this intimate storytelling event. Visit themodernbar.com/reserve now to secure a table!

Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, who has invited collaborators Rebecca Evans, Allison Maier, and Tomas Baiza to curate and host Season 11! We are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team.

Sunday, September 14
7 – 9pm
Host: Tomás Baiza
Artists: Eric Amador, Daphne Stanford, Maylene Cavazos
Theme: Latin@s in America

Tomás Baiza is originally from San José, California, but now finds himself in Boise, Idaho. He is the award-winning author of the books Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery, and A Purpose to Our Savagery. Tomás’s third book, Mexican Teeth: Stories and Assorted Artifacts of an Errant Chicanidad, will appear on Inlandia Books in 2026. Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize, and his novel, Delivery, has been accepted into the holdings of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Sherman Alexie has called Tomás’s writing “painful, scary, hilarious, incredibly vulnerable, and powerful in equal measure.” Tomás has been stalked by wild dogs while hitchhiking in Mexico, was once escorted by security out of the Pebble Beach & Tennis Club, and had the privilege of delivering a dozen pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention where he earned a very generous tip.

Eric Amador is a queer, Chican@ writer living in Twin Falls, Idaho. They graduated from Boise State University with a BA in creative writing in 2020. In 2023, they started Writers of Twin Falls, a group where writers in the Magic Valley have the opportunity to connect and work on their latest works while enjoying some delicious coffee. Eric is continually inspired by the outdoors, horror movies, and works by other queer and BIPOC storytellers. They use their writing as a way to explore and make sense of their experiences with identity, death, and other beautiful things.

Daphne Stanford writes nonfiction and poetry, and since 2012 she’s hosted The Poetry Show – a community radio show dedicated to interviewing poets and reading poems over the FM airwaves. It airs every Sunday 5-5:30p MT on Radio Boise/KRBX: 89.9/93.5 FM or radioboise.org. She holds a BA in English Literature & Language from Reed College and graduate degrees in Secondary English Education and Creative Writing from The University of Iowa and University of Oregon, respectively. A chapbook, The Inevitable Surfacing of Bodies, was published in 2019 from Dancing Girl Press, and she is currently at work on a full-length poetry collection.

Maylene Cavazos’ insatiable pursuit of self-knowledge leads her to unconventional paths – from Wim Hof Method instructor breathing psychedelic experiences to van-dwelling woods-woman chronicling spirit encounters. She holds a MA in Organizational Psychology, works in corporate IT, writes, and occasionally makes delicious tortilla soup.