Join us for an afternoon of creativity and storytelling with accomplished writers as we explore connections with place, personal stories, and the environment. Megan Mayhew-Bergman is an author, speaker, and Middlebury College professor who will be joined by a representative from the Conservation Law Foundation to guide participants in the ways we can represent the natural world through our writing.
About the Speaker
Megan Mayhew-Bergman is an author, speaker, and teacher who writes about the natural world and remarkable women in a science & art-forward way – and likes to help others do the same.
She is the author of three books, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, which Scribner published in March 2022. How Strange a Season was featured as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and in the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 list, and was longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She is currently writing a book on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, also with Scribner. Read her full bio on her website.
About the Fall Festival 2025
Our Vermont Reads 2025 book, The Light Pirate, raises the question of how we choose to adapt and grow after experiencing climate related crisis and trauma. In a flooding world, Wanda finds solace and hope in building community.
For this year’s Fall Festival, we want to highlight similar stories of hope as Vermont cities, towns, and villages face interrelated, complex problems such as climate change and the housing crisis.
Please contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.
