Rebecca Abrams

Rebecca is the award-winning author of seven works of fiction and non-fiction, and an experienced teacher and writer of historical fiction, fictionalised biography and historical drama. Her novel, Touching Distance (Picador), set in the 18th century Scotland, was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for Literature and won the Medical Journalists Association Open Book Award for Fiction.  She is currently working on a novel set in the 13^th century. Her non-fiction publications include Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England (LOWA) and The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects (Ashmolean Museum). Her debut stage play, All of Us, a revisioning of Sophocles’ Electra, received its stage premiere in 2023. She has taught creative writing at Oxford University since 2007, was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College from 2017-20, and is a writing mentor and guest tutor for the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. A former columnist on the Daily Telegraph, she is the recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award for Journalism and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.