Bernard Beckett has published ten books, and is a high school teacher with a love of writing plays and teaching drama, film and outdoor education. In 2005 he was awarded a Royal Society New Zealand Science, Mathematics and Technology Teaching Fellowship when he worked on a project examining DNA mutations. His 2008 novel Genesis, one of three books started that year, won the prestigious 2010 Prix Sorcières for young adult fiction in France, the Esther Glen Award, and the NZ Post Young Adult Fiction Award. His latest novel is August (2011).

See also: Bernard Beckett's Longacre Press profile.