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 served as the Associate Director of the MFA program at Bennington College from 2015–2017, and later the Director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum.
Her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories, and on NPR's Selected Shorts. She also wrote an environmental column for The Paris Review in 2016.
She writes regularly for the Guardian and the New Yorker on environmental issues, art, and music. In 2019, she wrote a column for The Guardian on the American south and climate change, which won the Reed Environmental Journalism Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center The New Yorker included How Strange A Season in its Best Books of 2022. In 2016, she was awarded a fellowship at the American Library in Paris. She is the author of the short story collections Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange A Season. She graduated from Duke University with a masters and Bennington College with an MFA.
In 2015, she won the Garrett Award for Fiction. 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.
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