Heather Brittain Bergstrom was raised in a small farming town in Eastern Washington. Her story “Celilo Falls” won Second Place in Narrative’s First-Person Story Contest, and “Reading Henry James in the Suburbs” won First Place in the Fall 2010 Story Contest. Bergstrom’s debut novel is entitled Steal the North. A finalist for the Nelson Algren Award, she received an MFA from Chico State and lives in Northern California with her husband and two children.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Valley, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2019–2020
- Miss Columbia Basin, a short story, in Spring 2014
- Reading Henry James in the Suburbs, a short story, in Winter 2011
- Farm-in-a-Day, a short story, in Winter 2010
- Celilo Falls, a short story, in Fall 2008
- Shallow Sea, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009