Megan Mayhew Bergman

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Megan Mayhew Bergman
Born (1979-12-23) December 23, 1979 (age 41)
Alma materDuke University,
Bennington College,
Wake Forest University
Genreshort stories
Notable awardsGarrett Award for Fiction.

Megan Mayhew Bergman (born December 23, 1979) is an American writer, author of the books Almost Famous Women and Birds of a Lesser Paradise.[1] In 2015, she won the Garrett Award for Fiction.[citation needed]

Life[]

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 and Almost Famous Women. In 2016, she was awarded a fellowship at the American Library in Paris.[2]

In 2019, she wrote a column for The Guardian on the American south and climate change,[3] which won the Reed Environmental Journalism Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center .[4]

She also wrote an environmental column for The Paris Review in 2016.[5] Her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories,[6] and on NPR's Selected Shorts.[7]

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.[8] She lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont.[9] with her husband and two daughters.

She is a senior fellow at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston, MA. [10]

Works[]

  • Almost Famous Women: Stories. Scribner. 6 January 2015. ISBN 978-1-4767-8657-5.[11][12]
  • Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories. Simon and Schuster. 6 March 2012. ISBN 978-1-4516-4335-0.[13][14]

References[]

  1. ^ Crum, Maddie. "2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read". Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2017-05-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/profile/megan-mayhew-bergman
  4. ^ https://www.southernenvironment.org/news-and-press/news-feed/selc-announces-winners-of-the-phil-reed-environmental-writing-awards
  5. ^ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/15/meeting-ones-madness/
  6. ^ http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Megan-Mayhew-Bergman/82454884
  7. ^ http://www.bennington.edu/news-and-features/selected-shorts-megan-mayhew-bergman-mfa-10
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman - The Los Angeles Review of Books". Archived from the original on 2016-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  10. ^ https://www.clf.org/about/senior-fellows/megan-mayhew-bergman/
  11. ^ "Book review: Megan Mayhew Berman's 'Almost Famous Women'". Miami Herald. February 1, 2015.
  12. ^ Jim Carmin (January 3, 2015). "Review: 'Almost Famous Women,' by Megan Mayhew Bergman". Star Tribune.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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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