Judy Dercksen is a family physician and pain and PTSD consultant in Quesnel, a rural BC town, and the family physician on the provincial BC ECHO team and creator of a website approved by the Doctors of BC organization: https://painimprovement.com
She completed the University of British Columbia UBC Advanced Certificate for Creative Writing; Simon Fraser University Writer's Studio Online program with Jen Sookfong Lee; and the SFU graduate program with Aislinn Hunter. Karen Connelly has mentored her in 2018 and 2021. She is an active member of the Creative Academy. She has had essays and articles published in the British Canadian Medical Journal, BCMJ; Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ; and the Medical Post; and Vancouver Sun; my fiction in Emerge 2020, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and 101 Words.
