diff --git a/src/MAT_HDF5.jl b/src/MAT_HDF5.jl
index 00d2f54..b0d36d6 100644
--- a/src/MAT_HDF5.jl
+++ b/src/MAT_HDF5.jl
@@ -371,8 +371,19 @@ function m_writearray(parent::HDF5Parent, name::String, adata::AbstractArray{Com
     end
 end
 
+function _normalize_arr(x)
+    if x isa Array
+        x
+    elseif x isa AbstractArray
+        collect(x)
+    else
+        x
+    end
+end
+
 # Write a scalar or array
-function m_write(mfile::MatlabHDF5File, parent::HDF5Parent, name::String, data::Union{T, Complex{T}, Array{T}, Array{Complex{T}}}) where {T<:HDF5BitsOrBool}
+function m_write(mfile::MatlabHDF5File, parent::HDF5Parent, name::String, data::Union{T, Complex{T}, AbstractArray{T}, AbstractArray{Complex{T}}}) where {T<:HDF5BitsOrBool}
+    data = _normalize_arr(data)
     if isempty(data)
         m_writeempty(parent, name, data)
         return
@@ -443,7 +454,8 @@ function m_write(mfile::MatlabHDF5File, parent::HDF5Parent, name::String, str::A
 end
 
 # Write cell arrays
-function m_write(mfile::MatlabHDF5File, parent::HDF5Parent, name::String, data::Array{T}) where T
+function m_write(mfile::MatlabHDF5File, parent::HDF5Parent, name::String, data::AbstractArray{T}) where T
+    data = _normalize_arr(data)
     pathrefs = "/#refs#"
     fid = HDF5.file(parent)
     local g
diff --git a/test/write.jl b/test/write.jl
index 3a1d820..ae4a2eb 100644
--- a/test/write.jl
+++ b/test/write.jl
@@ -129,3 +129,10 @@ test_write(sd)
 # note: compression is NOT effective when the dict contains many duplicate entries
 # which are not compressible by themselves!
 test_compression_effective(Dict("data" => fill(1.0, 1000)))
+
+# test adjoint/reshape array 
+test_write(Dict("adjoint_arr"=>[1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9]'))
+test_write(Dict("reshape_arr"=>reshape([1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9]',1,9)))
+
+test_write(Dict("adjoint_arr"=>Any[1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9]'))
+test_write(Dict("reshape_arr"=>reshape(Any[1 2 3;4 5 6;7 8 9]',1,9)))
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