Women’s Literature
Join us for a lively discussion of short stories, novels, poetry and memoirs by and about women.
Learn and share your insights with the group as we consider setting, character development, plot, point of view and the author’s biography.
Jacqueline Berger (Jackie) is professor emerita of English at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. She has taught literature and writing for over thirty years. She is also the author of four books of poetry, including The Gift That Arrives Broken, winner of the 2010 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and Things That Burn, the 2004 winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize. She has won the Bay Area Book Award (now the Northern California Book Award) and several of her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac.
Please review the Fall 2025 class syllabus here.
This class will start up again August 25 and meet weekly online, Mondays from 1:00 – 3:00 pm through early December.
Registration begins on July 29.
Reach out to Shiva Schulz, Director of Lifelong Learning, if you have any questions: [email protected]
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