Priscilla Howe has a full repertoire of funny, off-beat personal stories about growing up as the 7th (and youngest) child of an Episcopal priest, some of which (mostly) happened. If they didn’t, they might have—or as Priscilla says, “All my stories start with a seed of truth!”
Storyteller Priscilla Howe has a gift for sizing up audiences and delivering a whopping good time. A former librarian, she has been a full-time storyteller since 1993. She tells a mix of stories from books, folktales and original tales, most with a generous dollop of humor. She tailors her performances to the audience, so children get participatory tales and puppets while adults get more sophisticated (and still often funny) fare. Priscilla travels and the world—fifteen countries and counting—with a bagful of puppets and a head full of stories. In 2015, Howe spent five months on a Fulbright scholarship in Bulgaria collecting folktales, resulting in her book Clever, Kind, Tricky, and Sly: A Bulgarian Folktale Sampler. She lives in Lawrence KS with her ginger cat Pippin. Priscilla is also searching for the best restaurant pie on earth (fruit, not cream).