Rebecca Abrams

Abrams is an award-winning author and journalist and a lecturer in creative writing at Oxford University.  She is a long-standing tutor on the Oxford Masters in Creative Writing and a writing mentor for the Oxford Centre for Life Writing.  From 2017-2020 she was the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Brasenose College.  She is the author of seven works of fiction and non-fiction and three edited volumes. Her debut novel, Touching Distance was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for Literature and won the MJA Open Book Award for Medical Fiction. Her 2022 biography, Licoricia of Winchester:  Power and Prejudice in Medieval England (2022) was described as "totally fascinating, tragic and unforgettable."   Other publications include The Jewish Journey: 4000 years in 22 objects (2017) and Jewish Treasures From Oxford Libraries (2020) which was long-listed for the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize.   She also writes for the stage and her most recent play All of Us, a revisioning of Sophocles' Electra,  premiered in New Zealand in 2023.   She is the recipient of an Amnesty International Award for Journalism and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.