She was awarded the Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award for Journalism in 2020. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 20, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Oxford American, Orion, and elsewhere. She has written columns on climate change and the natural world for The Guardian and The Paris Review.
Megan is a journalist, essayist, and critic. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the American Library in Paris. Her work was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers and an Indie Next selection, and won the Garrett Award for Fiction in 2012. Megan studied anthropology at Wake Forest University, has an MA from Duke University, and an MFA from Bennington College. She lives on a farm in Vermont with two daughters and several rescue animals, and directs the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. She is currently writing a book on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, also with Scribner.
Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of three books, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, forthcoming from Scribner in March 2022. Bergman’s provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our ancestors to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes? In these haunting stories, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life’s challenges and beauty from the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.Ī recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with endangered flowers to establish a small world only she can control in an attempt to heal her broken heart.
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