Aker, Don

DON AKER is the author of The Space Between, winner of the Canadian Library Association s Honour Book Award; One on One, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Lilla Stirling Award; and The First Stone, winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award and the White Pine Award. His novels The Fifth Rule and Running on Empty were also White Pine Award finalists. A teacher for over twenty years and the father of two daughters, Don lives with his wife on Nova Scotia s Bay of Fundy shoreline. Visit him online at donaker.com.