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“Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing”
Presented by Bev Biderman

Bev Biderman

Bev Biderman spent her childhood eating peas in the pod in Picton, in Prince Edward County. She is a recovering computer analyst and a writer, having published her memoir of growing up deaf as a door knob and learning to hear with a cochlear implant, Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing (Rev 2016). At the age of 12, she was relocated (by her parents) to Toronto and went on to York University. She worked in IT for 25 years as a computer programmer, systems analyst and campus-wide strategic planner at UofT.

At the age of 50 she began a second career as a writer.

Her award-winning memoir was favourably blurbed by Oliver Sacks. It was optioned for a film treatment, but the movie was never made. When a composer asked if he could base an opera on it; she said “yes." The opera has been performed exactly once. 

She now leads tours of the curious and the cognoscenti at the Art Gallery of Ontario and writes the occasional essay and book review in publications including The Globe and Mail, the Literary Review of Canada, and the Ottawa Citizen. She travels  to escape the awful traffic in downtown Toronto, where she lives, favouring islands, of which she has visited 44.