Her father was a German immigrant who moved to the United States as a young man and earned a master's degree from Harvard.
[3] Bergmann took an interest in speculative fiction early on in life and began writing poetry in high school, seeing some of her work published as a teenager before taking a break from writing poems for a couple of decades.
[4] Bergmann's poems, short stories, and essays, many of which pertain to the genres of science fiction and fantasy, have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.
[9] She has also guest-edited an issue of the SFPA's online speculative poetry journal Eye to the Telescope, a publication for which she serves as webmaster.
Her collection A Catalogue of the Further Suns won the 2018 Elgin in the same category[12] and also placed first in the 2016 Gold Line Press manuscript competition.