After over two decades in molecular genetics research, Beverly Akerman realized she'd been learning more and more about less and less. Skittish at the prospect of knowing everything about nothing, she turned, for solace, to writing. Her book The Meaning Of Children made the Top 10 for the CBC – Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers’ Choice Contest. Winner of the David Adams Richards Prize, the Professional Writers Association of Canada’s Short Article Award; multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards (submissions). Credits include The Hill Times, The Jewish Magazine, Maclean’s, The Montreal Gazette, The National Post, The National Review of Medicine, The Toronto Star, CBC Radio One, and the numerous literary journals and anthologies: Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2012, The Antigonish Review, Best New Writing 2011, The Binnacle, BluePrintReview, carte blanche, cellstories.net, Cliterature, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, EarLit Shorts, Fictionaut, Fog City Review, Grain, Joyland.ca, The Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, On the Premises, Rampike, Red Wheelbarrow, Rio Grande Review, r.kv.r.y quarterly, The Rover, The Vocabula Review, Windsor Review and The Winnipeg Review. Beverly is strangely pleased to believe herself the only Canadian fiction writer to have sequenced her own DNA. 

Author, The Meaning of Children, now on Kindle!
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“Akerman holds up our greatest fears, not to dwell on them, but to marvel at our commitment to life, especially to passing it on to others.”
~Anne Chudobiak, The Montreal Gazette

“This isn’t the invented childhood of imagination and wonderment…[here] children both corrupt and redeem: each other, family relationships and the female body.”
~Katie Hewitt, The Globe & Mail

TV & Radio Interviews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0i9teebBxk; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyOp2wQlxvk; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djOXwJasZes

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