Reading November 14 in Middlebury

Megan Mayhew Bergman & Spring Ulmer

September 17, 2019

New England Review and the Middlebury College Creative Writing Program are pleased to present new writing faculty Megan Mayhew Bergman and Spring Ulmer, who will read from their fiction and essays. Join us Thursday, November 14, at 4:30 pm, in the Axinn Center, Abernethy Room, at Middlebury College. Light refreshments will be served in the Winter Garden.

Megan Mayhew Bergman, joining the Creative Writing faculty this year in fiction, is the author of Almost Famous Women, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, and Indigo Run. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, and other publications. She was a fellow at the American Library in Paris and now directs Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Spring Ulmer, who joined the Creative Writing faculty last fall with a specialty in nonfiction, is the author of Benjamin’s Spectacles, The Age of Virtual Reproduction, and the forthcoming Bestiality of the Involved. She lives in Essex, New York, with her son André.

Mid-Week Break

Megan Mayhew Bergman Reads at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference 2018

November 7, 2018

Megan Mayhew Bergman reads from her essay which appeared in the Paris Review, “The Feminine Heroic.”

Bergman, Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, is currently the Director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate students. Previously, she served as the Associate Director of Bennington’s MFA Program. She recently completed a fellowship at the American Library in Paris and wrote an environmental column for the Paris Review. She is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, as well as a forthcoming novel. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker’s Page Turner, the New York Times, NPR’s Selected Shorts, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Oxford American, and Best American Short Stories 2011 and 2015.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

NER Vermont Reading Series

August 8, 2012

On Thursday, August 9th, 7 p.m., at Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe in Middlebury, four writers will read from their work as part of the NER Vermont Reading Series: Megan Mayhew Bergman, Hugh Coyle, Lené Gary, and Tim Weed.

Megan Mayhew Bergman lives in rural Vermont with her veterinarian husband, Bo, and two daughters. Her story collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise (Scribner, 2012) was a Barnes and Noble Discover, IndieBound, Amazon, and Oprah pick, and her novel Shepherd, Wolf is forthcoming. Megan’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Megan is a justice of the peace and occasionally teaches literature at Bennington College.

Hugh Coyle earned his MFA at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has served on the admissions board of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and on the administrative staff of the Bread Loaf School of English. His work has appeared in The Boston Review, New England Review, Green Mountains Review, Café Review, Christopher Street, and Vermont magazine, among others. He has received a Pushcart Prize and a Heekin Award in Fiction.

Lené Gary is a poet and writer living in Montpelier, Vermont. Her work has appeared in Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont, Poemeleon, Limestone, Six Little Things, Watershed, M Review, Pecan Grove Review, Silkworm, Crash, Connotation Press, Grandmother Earth, SAGE, Vermont Nature, KNOCK, and The Poet’s Touchstone. She holds a dual-genre MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. When she’s not writing, she can be found paddling her well-worn Mad River canoe.

Tim Weed’s stories and essays have appeared in many national magazines and reviews. His short fiction collection, The Camp at Cutthroat Lake, was a finalist for the Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Award. Based in Putney, Tim also teaches in the MFA writing program at Western Connecticut State University and is working on a novel. Read more at www.timweed.net.

This event is free and open to the public. Carol’s is located at 24 Merchants Row in Middlebury.

Sponsored by New England Review, with support from Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, the Vermont Book Shop, and Middlebury Community TV, the NER Vermont Reading Series provides an opportunity for Vermont writers to read their work in front of an audience, and to acquaint local audiences with the talented writers who live and work among us.