Barry Bergman

Barry Bergman is a New York City refugee, long ago replanted in the SF Bay Area. He’s been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer/editor—with scores of bylined stories in Sierra, California, and Mother Jones magazines—and a communications pro at UC Berkeley and assorted nonprofits. Before earning his journalism degree at San Francisco State University he worked in a variety of industrial settings, including two years in an Arizona copper smelter, an experience he would reimagine, eventually, as the fictional background for Proles, his first completed novel.

He’s currently working on a new novel, Mr. Pitiful, in a house he shares with his journalist wife and two cats, Cosmo and Mookie, in Berkeley, California.