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About How Strange a Season:
In evocative and engrossing stories, the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances (a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston). Bergman’s provocative prose asks the questions: what are we leaving behind for our descendants to hold, and what price will they pay for our mistakes?
Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of Almost Famous Women and Birds of a Lesser Paradise. Her short fiction has appeared in two volumes of The Best American Short Stories and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She has written columns on climate change and the natural world for The Guardian and The Paris Review. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Oxford American, Orion, and elsewhere. She teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where she also serves as director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She lives on a small farm in Vermont.
Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write many more books, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from The New Yorker to Rolling Stone. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize as well as honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel, in the Swedish Parliament. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers.
Robin MacArthur is the author of the short story collection Half Wild (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016) and the novel Heart Spring Mountain (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018). Both books have been translated into French by France Camus and published in France by Albin Michel. Half Wild won the Pen New England for Fiction in 2016, was a finalist for the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award, and was a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers and Indie Next selection. Heart Spring Mountain was a finalist for the New England Book Award and an Indie Next selection in 2018. Robin lives on the farm where she was born in southern Vermont.