Megan Mayhew

Photograph by Nina Subin

About The Author

Megan Mayhew is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and How Strange a Season. 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, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, and Oxford American, and elsewhere. She is the Director of Conservation Communication for Mass Audubon and of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She lives in Vermont.

Books by Megan Mayhew

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
The All-Women Swing Band That Made Music History
The surprising history the first racially integrated all-women swing band, following world-class musicians with larger-than-life personalities on their journeys through the Jim Crow south and throughout their barrier-breaking careers.

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