Berkeley English Faculty

Melanie Abrams

Lecturer

Wheeler Hall, room 451
melanieabrams@berkeley.edu

Specialties

Creative Writing

Books

Meadowlark

A haunting novel about the lasting effects of childhood trauma and the resulting choices we make for our children. After growing up in an austere spiritual compound, two teenagers, Simrin and Arjun, escape and go their separate ways. Years later....(read more)

FIELDS:

Creative Writing

Playing: A Novel

Abrams's debut novel is a revealing look inside the mind of a woman who enjoys being beaten, shamed and dominated by her lover. As her bedroom escapades become increasingly brutal, she struggles to make sense of her need for sexual violence, her rel....(read more)

FIELDS:

Creative Writing

English Department Classes

fall, 2022
43A/1	Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops
141/1	Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.)	Creative Writing Lecture Courses
	141/101 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.

spring, 2022
141/1	Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.)	Creative Writing Lecture Courses
143A/1	Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops

summer, 2022
141/1	Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.)	Creative Writing Lecture Courses

fall, 2021
43A/1	Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops
141/1	Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.)	Creative Writing Lecture Courses
	141/101 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.
	141/102 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.
	141/103 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.
	141/104 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.

spring, 2021
141/1	Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.)	Creative Writing Lecture Courses
	141/101 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.
	141/102 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.
143A/2	Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops