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Megan Mayhew Bergman
Born (1979-12-23) December 23, 1979 (age 44)
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 also is the author of a previous collection of stories, Birds of a Lesser Paradise. In 2016, she was awarded a fellowship at the American Library in Paris.[2]

She wrote an environmental column for The Paris Review in 2016.[3] Her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories,[4] and on NPR's Selected Shorts.[5]

She served as the Associate Director of the MFA program at Bennington College from 2015-2017. She is now the Director of the Breadloaf Environmental Writing Program at Middlebury College, and the Director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington.[6] She lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont.[7] with her husband and two daughters.

Works

  • Almost Famous Women: Stories. Scribner. 6 January 2015. ISBN 978-1-4767-8657-5.[8][9]
  • Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories. Simon and Schuster. 6 March 2012. ISBN 978-1-4516-4335-0.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ Crum, Maddie. "2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read". Huffington Post. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ^ http://www.americanlibraryinparis.org/events-programs/library-events/adult-programs/eventdetail/2715/-/evenings-with-an-author-megan-mayhew-bergman-on-supporting-women-in-the-arts.html
  3. ^ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/15/meeting-ones-madness/
  4. ^ http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Megan-Mayhew-Bergman/82454884
  5. ^ http://www.bennington.edu/news-and-features/selected-shorts-megan-mayhew-bergman-mfa-10
  6. ^ "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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ "Megan Mayhew Bergman - The Los Angeles Review of Books". Archived from the original on 2016-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-17. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Book review: Megan Mayhew Berman's 'Almost Famous Women'". Miami Herald. February 1, 2015.
  9. ^ Jim Carmin (January 3, 2015). "Review: 'Almost Famous Women,' by Megan Mayhew Bergman". Star Tribune.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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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