Megan Mayhew Bergman (born December 23, 1979) is an American writer and environmental journalist, author of the books Almost Famous Women, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, and How Strange a Season, and a forthcoming biography on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
She is the author of the short story collections Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, which was longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, The Story Prize, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
[6] She writes regularly for The Guardian and The New Yorker on environmental issues, art, and music.
She is now the Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference at Middlebury College, where she also teaches in the undergraduate Creative Writing Department.
She was a senior fellow at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston, MA from 2019-2020[14] and founded a nonprofit called Open Field, dedicated to increasing access to environmental storytelling skills.