Mary Berman

Mary Berman writes mostly – but not exclusively – fantasy and science fiction, both adult and YA. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi, where she was a Graduate Excellence Fellow. She also has a BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University.

She has taught undergraduate fiction workshops; co-hosted the Broken English Reading Series in Oxford, Mississippi; and served as the Logistics Chair for the New York writers’ conference BinderCon. She is an Active Member of SFWA, a member of the Codex Writers' Forum, and a former first reader for the interactive fiction magazine sub-Q.

By day, Mary works in the PhD in Creativity program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In her spare time, she takes fitness classes and antagonizes her cat.