Another professor from ARC will be our June speaker: Lois Ann Abraham

Lois Ann Abraham is the author of Tina Goes to Heaven (Ad Lumen Press). Tina Goes to Heaven has been described as “an emotional treasure” by Lydia Netzer, author of Shine, Shine, Shine and as “a crazy cocktail” by Joshua Mohr, author of All This Life.

She is a writer of short fiction, novels, and essays. She has read both as open mic and as a featured reader at TrueStory and also at American River College’s SummerWords 2016, where she offered a workshop on generation, inspiration, and revision as a creative process. Her purpose as a writer is to celebrate untold stories, challenge assumptions, and enjoy the beauty of sentences.

Her first book was Circus Girl and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction. Her stories have been presented at Stories on Stage Davis and Stories on Stage Sacramento. She is presently mid-way through the first draft of a new novel set in the 1890s.

She has been a tenured professor in the English Department at American River College for thirteen years, teaching literature, composition, and creative writing. She lives in Sacramento with husband and cats. Her hobby is staring out the window.

At the June meeting of the Sacramento Suburban Writers Club, she will read from her published work and work-in-progress, talk about her processes of writing, and field questions from the audience in what promises to be an entertaining discussion.