LOREN NIEMI
Minneapolis MN
651-271-6349niemistory@gmail.com
https://www.lorenniemistories.com/
VIDEOS OF LOREN
"The Ghost in the Computer"
"Poetry Hour June 18, 2018"
Loren Niemi is storyteller with 45 years of creating, collecting, coaching, performing, producing, teaching and writing about stories and what it means to be human. He is the recipient of a National Storytelling Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the founder of the American School of Storytelling.
With Elizabeth Ellis he co-authored the critically acclaimed Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories on the value and necessity of the stories that are hard to hear and harder to tell. He also authored two books on storytelling structure: The New Book of Plots, on useful narrative forms in oral and written stories, and Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories co-authored with Nancy Donoval and explores approaches to “who is telling the story?” Loren’s collection of non-traditional “ghost” stories, What Haunts Us, won a 2020 Midwest Book Award for “Sci-Fi/ Horror / Fantasy / Paranormal” fiction. A Breviary for the Lost, his 2022 poetic memoir of seven years in a Catholic religious order is joined this year by Circus Rex, a novel of romance, offbeat humor, catastrophe leading to a happy ending. All are available now at: https://www.LorenNiemistories.com or https://www.americanschoolofstorytelling.com