Kurt Zwolfer

Executive Director

Kurt is the Executive Director of The Cabin and works closely with the Board of Directors to manage policy, personnel, and a healthy balance sheet so that The Cabin can continue to serve the community of readers and writers here in Idaho.

He has BA in Rhetoric (a fancy word for creative writing) from The University of Illinois and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Boise State University. On his path to managing a non-profit, Kurt did stints running an astronomy observatory, directing the education programs at the Idaho State Museum, and tracking and banding birds in Illinois, Hawaii, and the Owyhee desert.

In his spare time you can either find him in a Boise coffee shop reading a book or alternately getting lost on some Idaho back road on the way to explore an obscure canyon or mountain peak. His wife says that he has too many books and she’s probably right. The shelves of his upstairs office are triple stacked and the piles on the floor are almost waist deep. There is a chance he might be found one day crushed under a literary avalanche, a copy of Tristram Shandy in one hand, a glass of spilled port in the other. When you think about it, not a bad way to go.