Megan Mayhew Bergman is an environmental journalist and author of three books of fiction, the latest of which is How Strange a Season (Scribner, forthcoming 2022). Her collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick and an Indie Next Pick, and was selected as one of the Best Books of 2012 by The Huffington Post. She’s a visiting professor at Middlebury College and directs the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. (updated 4/2021)