About the Author

Bill Koch is a writer and retired psychologist whose fiction draws on more than four decades of clinical experience studying and treating mental illness. Over the course of his career, he conducted research in anxiety disorders and trauma, worked as a highly credentialed cognitive behaviour therapist, and provided forensic psychological assessments for the courts concerning the consequences of trauma.

 

He also investigated and adjudicated ethical violations for the College of Psychologists of British Columbia and assessed health professionals for their fitness to practise. As a clinical professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, he taught and supervised future clinicians and is now clinical professor emeritus.

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Bill is the author of the academic text Psychological Injuries: Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and Law (Oxford University Press, 2006). His fiction has appeared in emerge 21: The Writer’s Studio Anthology, and his work has received several awards from the North Shore Writers Association. His novel Hired Gun introduced the character of psychologist David Lipman, whose earlier career is explored in Shrinks: Tales of Transition.

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He lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia, overlooking English Bay, with his wife of many years and two high-maintenance cats.

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