Menachem Kaiser

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Annual Lecture

Axton Reading:
September 15 7:30 pm
Jewish Studies Room (Ekstrom Library)

Axton Master Class (fiction and nonfiction):
September 16, 10 am to noon
Bingham Humanities (HUM) 300

Menachem Kaiser is the author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure. Currently living in Brooklyn, NY, he grew up in Toronto, Canada, and has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from University of Michigan, and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, New York, BOMB, Vogue, and elsewhere.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Axton Reading:
November 3 7:30 pm
University Writing Center (Ekstrom Library)

Axton Master Class (fiction):
November 4, 10 am to noon
Bingham Humanities (HUM) 300

Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of three books of fiction, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season, which Scribner published in March 2022. She is also a journalist, essayist, and critic, and 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. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2011 and 2015, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She currently teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where she also serves as Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.