Megan Mayhew Bergman‘s first collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, was published by Scribner, and was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick and Huffington Post Best Book of 2012. Scribner will also publish her next collection, Almost Famous Women, and a novel in 2015.
Fiction
Fall 2014
The Siege at Whale Cay
Georgie woke up in bed alone. She slipped into a swimsuit and wandered out to a soft stretch of white sand Joe called Femme Beach. The Caribbean sky was cloudless, […]
Fiction
Winter 2012
Another Story She Won’t Believe
We are the bad mothers, the moose and I―me for drinking, the moose for abandoning her yearling to attend her newborn. I’m reading about moose in a coffee-table book someone […]
2008 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Winter 2009
Afterbirth
Like loons we travel underwater great distances, to surface next to each other …No matter where you are or who you’re near, we come up for air together. —Anne Michaels, […]
The Kenyon Review Credos
Managing the Risks of Socially-Conscious Writing
The Kenyon Review Credos I’m not sure if it was becoming a mother, or publishing my first book—because these events happened in essentially the same year—but when it comes to […]
Megan Mayhew Bergman
A micro-interview with Megan Mayhew Bergman by KR Associate Jill Hanley. Megan Mayhew Bergman’s first book, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, will be published in March 2012. Her work has […]