Megan Mayhew Bergman
Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season. She’s currently writing a biography of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Also a journalist, she has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR. She is a professor at Middlebury College where she also directs the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.
Reading List
Peaches, 1979
The telltale yellowing of the leaves. The soil so dry it felt coarse in her hands. A knot of doom in her gut telling her the harvest was going to fail. Darcy prayed for rain and, in the morning, walked the rows of contorted trees, sipping coffee and applying a strip of orange paint to […]
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Small Town Dispatches: Megan Mayhew Bergman
Special Features Editor Nadeen Kharputly interviews Shenandoah contributor Megan Mayhew Bergman to learn about what it’s like to live in her small town of Shaftsbury, VT.