As of 2014[update], Bergen lived in Tokyo, Japan with his wife, Yoko Umehara, and their daughter Cocoa.

[1] With his friends Brian Huber and Mateusz Sikora established a record label, IF?

[2][6] In April 2011 Bergen published his first novel, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, via Another Sky Press.

[3][7] Nalini Haynes of Dark Matter Zine observed it is written in a "pseudo-stream-of-consciousness style" and warns that it "requires the reader to be familiar with numerous films from the mid-twentieth century.

[9][10] It "is by turns educational, inspiring, traumatic and humorous" according to Fantasy Book Review's Floresiensis.