Megan Mayhew Bergman

Journalism & Essays

New Yorker

• How Allan Gurganus Became a Writer

• The Vibrant Life and Quiet Passing of Dottie Dodgion

• The Improbable Life of Helen Jones Woods & the International Sweethearts of Rhythm

• Marlene Dietrich’s Marginalia

The Atlantic

• Vermont Was Supposed to Be a Climate Haven

Harper’s Bazaar

• A Visionary Designer, the 60s, and the Artistic Darkness of Bennington

The Guardian

• The USWNT and Closing the Gendered Wealth Gap

• The Joy of Roadside Americana

• Environmental Justice, Access, and the Future of Museums

• Women, Canoeing, and the Historic 7 Carries Route of the Adirondacks

• Lhakpa Sherpa’s Record-breaking 10th Everest Summit

• We’re Saving the Last of the Last - What Florida’s Endangered Panthers Need to Survive

• The Precarity of North Carolina’s Highway 12 - Driving the Outer Banks

• Should I Have Children? Weighing Parenthood in the Climate Crisis

• Decades Ahead of His Time: History Catches Up with Visionary Jimmy Carter

• Food Security and an Amphibious Shelter for the Gullah Geechee of Hilton Head Island

• Using Stem Cell Technology to Save the Last Northern White Rhinos

• We’re Watching Them Die: Saving the Last Right Whales

• Rewilding Your Lawn: Creating Much-Needed Habitat

• Adventuring While Female; Remembering Anne LeBastille

• The Long Dreams of Lhakpa Sherpa

• “We Loved Each Other” - America’s First Racially Integrated, All-Girls Swing Band

Seascape: The Future of Fish - Column for The Guardian

• Shrimping off the Coast of Georgia in a Pandemic

• Covid, Culture, and the Collapse of New England’s Cod Fishery

• The Lobsterwomen of Maine - Adapting to Change in a Community-Forward Way

• The Powerful & Storied Blue Marlin - Why Bring a Vulnerable Fish to the Dock?

• Protecting Biodiversity and Restoring Indigenous Fishing Rights in Hawaii

• The Moral Imperative for Alternative Seafood (Even if I Didn’t Like It)

Climate Changed - Column for The Guardian (on the American South)

• Final Column: Ignoring Climate Change is Governmental Malpractice

• The Old South: The Danger of Glorifying the Past, Instead of Preparing for the Future

• When Environmental Racism and Climate Change Collide

• Florida’s Coming Real Estate Crisis

• Psychological Resilience and Coastal Living

• Hunters & the Power of Non-Traditional Environmentalists

• Talking with Evangelicals About Climate Change

• The American South & Climate Change: New Conversations

• Hurricane Florence as Turning Point

Essays

• The Girl Who Left and the Woman Who Stayed - Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town (LitHub)

• In Search of the Sacred - Reconciling the Scientific and Spiritual (LitHub)

• Rewilding and Beauty: A Conversation with Jeff VanderMeer and Lili Taylor (LitHub)

• A Wild Flag: The Contemporary Resonance of E.B. White’s Wartime Editorials (LitHub)

• Beautiful, Damned: Tracking Beauty in a Wounded World (Orion)

• The Feminine Heroic (Paris Review)

• Meeting One’s Madness (Paris Review)

• The Long and Pretty Goodbye (Paris Review)

• The American Lawn as Camp (Paris Review)

• The Tao of Sunbathing (The Common)

• The International Sweethearts of Rhythm (Oxford American)

Criticism

• Lydia Millet’s We Loved it All (Scientific American)

• Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees (Washington Post)

• Roxane Gay’s Difficult Women (Washington Post)

• Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (New York Times)

• Melissa Coleman’s This Life is In Your Hands (New York Times)