Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew is the author of four books, including the forthcoming The International Sweethearts of Rhythm (Scribner, August 2027), the story of a groundbreaking interracial all-women jazz band that defied Jim Crow and helped shape American music.

Writing previously as Megan Mayhew Bergman, she is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Her work explores the natural world, overlooked women, culture, and power.

A longtime advocate for environmental storytelling, she serves as Director of Conservation and Policy Communications at Mass Audubon and Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She lives in Vermont.