Megan Mayhew Bergman serves as the Director of Middlebury College’s Creative Writing Department and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She is passionate about opening up environmental conversations, expanding our definition of what is considered environmental writing, and shining a light on under-reported experiences, particularly those of women. She is the author of three books of fiction, and is a climate journalist and documentary filmmaker. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, Atlantic, Paris Review, New York Times, and Best American Short Stories. She received the Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award for Journalism from the Southern Environmental Law Center, a fellowship from the American Library in Paris, and serves on the Thoreau Prize Committee. Megan studied anthropology at Wake Forest University, and completed graduate degrees at Duke University and Bennington College.