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Megan Mayhew Bergman

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Megan Mayhew Bergman
Born (1979-12-23) December 23, 1979 (age 44)
EducationDuke University
Bennington College (MFA)
Wake Forest University
Genreshort stories
Notable awardsGarrett Award for Fiction.

Megan Mayhew Bergman (born December 23, 1979) is an American writer and environmental journalist, author of the books Almost Famous Women, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, and How Strange a Season, and a forthcoming biography on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.[1] In 2015, she won the Garrett Award for Fiction.[2]

Life

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She graduated from Duke University with a masters and Bennington College with an MFA.

She is the author of the short story collections Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, which was longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, The Story Prize, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. In 2016, she was awarded a fellowship at the American Library in Paris.[3] The New Yorker included How Strange A Season in its Best Books of 2022.[4]

In 2019, she wrote a column for The Guardian on the American south and climate change,[5] which won the Reed Environmental Journalism Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center.[6] She writes regularly for The Guardian and The New Yorker on environmental issues, art, and music.[7]

She also wrote an environmental column for The Paris Review in 2016.[8] Her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories,[9] and on NPR's Selected Shorts.[10]

She served as the Associate Director of the MFA program at Bennington College from 2015–2017, and later the Director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum. She is now the Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference at Middlebury College, where she also teaches in the undergraduate Creative Writing Department.[11][12] She lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont[13] with her husband and two daughters.

She was a senior fellow at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston, MA from 2019-2020[14] and founded a nonprofit called Open Field, dedicated to increasing access to environmental storytelling skills.[15]

Works

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  • Almost Famous Women: Stories. Scribner. 6 January 2015. ISBN 978-1-4767-8657-5.[16][17]
  • Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories. Simon and Schuster. 6 March 2012. ISBN 978-1-4516-4335-0.[18][19]
  • How Strange A Season. Simon and Schuster. 29 March 2022. ISBN 978-1-4767-1310-6.

References

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  1. ^ Peschel, Joseph (May 2022). "Megan Mayhew Bergman's How Strange a Season: Fiction". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  2. ^ "George Garrett New Writing Award". Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Evenings with an author: Megan Mayhew Bergman on supporting women in the arts". Archived from the original on 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  4. ^ "The Best Books of 2022". The New Yorker. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
  6. ^ "SELC announces winners of the 2020 Phil Reed Environmental Writing Awards".
  7. ^ DiTiberio, Cindy. "On Pleasing Yourself: A Conversation with Megan Mayhew Bergman". Literary Mama. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  8. ^ "The Paris Review - Alan Watts and the Age of Environmental Anxiety". 15 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman".
  10. ^ "Selected Shorts: Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA '10 | Bennington College".
  11. ^ "Mayhew Bergman Appointed Associate Director of the MFA in Writing Program". bennington.edu. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  12. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman". Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  13. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman - The Los Angeles Review of Books". Archived from the original on 2016-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  14. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman | Conservation Law Foundation". www.clf.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01.
  15. ^ "Open Field". Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Book review: Megan Mayhew Berman's 'Almost Famous Women'". Miami Herald. February 1, 2015.
  17. ^ Jim Carmin (January 3, 2015). "Review: 'Almost Famous Women,' by Megan Mayhew Bergman". Star Tribune.
  18. ^ Peschel, Joseph (March 7, 2012). "Megan Mayhew Bergman's debut story collection, 'Birds of a Lesser Paradise,' looks at women struggling with identity". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  19. ^ Rosenwaike, Polly (2012-03-30). "'Birds of a Lesser Paradise,' by Megan Mayhew Bergman". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
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