Megan studied anthropology at Wake Forest University, has an MA from Duke University, and an MFA from Bennington College.
She lives on a farm in Vermont with two daughters and several rescue animals, and directs the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. She is currently writing a book on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, also with Scribner.
Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of three books, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, forthcoming from Scribner in March 2022. Almost Famous Women is a gorgeous collection from an "accomplished writer of short fiction" ( Booklist). The world hasn't always been kind to unusual women, but through Megan Mayhew Bergman's alluring depictions they finally receive the attention they deserve. These extraordinary stories travel the world, explore the past (and delve into the future), and portray fiercely independent women defined by their acts of bravery, creative impulses, and sometimes reckless decisions. We see Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly West With the Night author Beryl Markham Edna St.
Nearly every story in this dazzling collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity-she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business a reclusive painter of renown a member of the first all-female, integrated swing band. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, resurrects these women, lets them live in the reader's imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. The fascinating lives of the characters in Almost Famous Women have mostly been forgotten, but their stories are burning to be told. From "a top-notch emerging writer with a crisp and often poetic voice and wily, intelligent humor" ( The Boston Globe): a collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history.
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