J. Peter Bergman
J. Peter Bergman was the Director of Communications at Herman Melville's Arrowhead and, for seven years, the Executive Director for the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society at Steepletop in Austerlitz, New York. In the past he has been a writer for The Berkshire Eagle, Berkshire's Week, The Advocate, The Berkshire Beacon, and The Independent, and is a contributor to The Edge and BerkshireBrightFocus.com. He is a novelist, poet, and author of short fiction. His book, "Counterpoints," won the 2002 Friends of Charles Dickens Award and his second novel, “Cement Dust,” won a 2020 IPPY Award for fiction. He has been a paid theater critic since he was 15 years old.