Carol Bergé (b. 1928) Position LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Carol Bergé (b. 1928) Bergé was first published at age eight while at The Fieldston School in New York City. In the fourth year of a degree program at New York University, she decided to study free-form the subjects that attracted her. Working days in publishing and advertising, at night she studied art history, literature, sociology, anthropology, comparative religion, copywriting, geology, the philosophy of politics, Shakespeare, and the stock market. In 1960, a divorced mother of a four-year-old son, she joined the Light Years Coffeehouse Readings in New York City and found support and encouragement to become a dedicated writer. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she has published five short-story collections, twelve books of poetry, and two novels. She has edited and published Center, a magazine for innovative fiction, and taught at several universities. She writes about people seeking love and self-respect, and her interest in the relationship between history and artifacts led her to become an anitques dealer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she now lives and continues to write, edit, and teach.