Anne Mullens is an International journalist and author who lives in Victoria, British Columbia. She writes for Canadian and International editions of Reader's Digest and many other Canadian and North American magazines and newspapers. She has won more than a dozen Canadian awards for her writing. She has also written two critically acclaimed books, Missed Conceptions (1990) and Timely Death (1996), which won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. One of  Anne's award-winning magazine pieces was recently selected as part of a Canadian anthology of exemplary feature writing depicting compelling storytelling with "clarity of purpose, meticulous reporting and evocative, crystal-clear writing."

She specializes in complex medical and scientific feature writing, but loves to do travel features on the side. Her travel writing has appeared in British Columbia Magazine, La Vie Claire, Alaska Airlines Magazine and the Vancouver Sun and Victoria Times Colonist. She was a frequent contributor to the Seattle P.I.'s travel section, specializing in outdoor adventures in the Pacific Northwest until the newspaper closed in winter 2009.

In spring 2009, Anne became associate editor of Victoria's Boulevard Magazine, the region's leading lifestyle magazine which publishes every two months.

Anne also does contract writing and research for government and private clients, ghostwriting, as well as writing and research for television, film and radio documentaries. In the fall of 2007 Anne pitched, researched, wrote, and narrated the radio documentary: "Where Have All The Tenors Gone?" for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's popular show "IDEAS."

In the fall of 2009, Anne began working with the General Practice Services Committee as a communications consultant. The GPSC's mandate is to find a solution to the crisis in family doctors and to support the full service family physician in British Columbia with the ultimate aim that every person in BC who wants one has a family doctor.

You can reach Anne through her email: akmullens at telus.net. (Replace the written at with the "at" symbol.)