marital status, total family income, country of birth, or health insurance status. The survey results were influential in shaping final recommendations of the Ministerial Review of Birthing Services by countering stereotypes about women who become dissatisfied with their care, providing evidence of far greater dissatisfaction with intrapartum than antenatal care, and demonstrating the importance of information, participation in decision making, and relationships with caregivers to women's overall satisfaction with intrapartum care.Interview With Author Megan Mayhew Bergman

22 Dec 2011

Megan Mayhew Bergman lives on a small farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Her work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the New York Times, Best American Short Stories 2011, New Stories from the South 2010, Oxford American, Narrative, Ploughshares, One Story, and elsewhere. Her first story collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, will be published by Scribner in March 2012. Flyway blogger Ian Pisarcik recently had the opportunity to ask Megan a few questions.

Ian John Pisarcik: You were raised in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and currently live on a small farm in rural Vermont. How much does your environment shape your writing?

Megan Mayhew Bergman: I’m very focused on place. I think that’s what happens with distance