Rebecca Abrams

Born in Cambridge in 1963, Rebecca Abrams has lived in the north, south, east and west of England, as well as in America, France and Switzerland.  An award-winning author and journalist, her fiction debut, Touching Distance, was published to critical acclaim in 2008, was shortlisted for the 2009 McKitterick Prize and won the 2009 Medical Journalists’ Association Award for Fiction. Well-known for her writing on family life, Rebecca is also the author of several successful non-fiction titles, including Three Shoes, One Sock & No Hairbrush, a guide for second-time parents, described by Parenting Magazine as ‘essential reading’; The Playful Self: Why Women Need Play in their Lives,  Woman In A Man’s World and When Parents Die, first published in 1991, shortlisted for the MIND Award and now an established classic in its field. Rebecca teaches creative writing on the Diploma and Masters courses at the University of Oxford, is a former Honorary Teaching Fellow on the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick and is a core tutor for The Literary Consultancy.  She is a founding faculty member and leads workshops on the Family for the School of Life in London. A columnist on the Daily Telegraph for a number of years, she is a recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award, and a regular contributor to the Guardian and other publications.