Megan Mayhew-Bergman

Bio

Megan Mayhew-Bergman is the author of three books: Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, which was featured as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and in the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 list, and was longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where she also serves as Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She is an instructor in the California Coast and Climate Semester and MPA in Sustainability Program, and oversees an Environmental Storytelling Series. She recently founded Open Field, a non-profit geared toward increasing the accessibility of environmental storytelling and advocacy skills, and is the co-founder of GreenStory, an environmental narrative agency. She’s at work on a book on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.