Dr. Maud Nerman is a doctor, author, and activist, based in Marin County. Over her 40+ year career, Maud has become one of the top Osteopathic Physicians in the world, specializing in the treatment of traumatic brain injury. Maud’s writing is deeply informed by the medical wisdom she has gained over her long career as a healer. Maud’s greatest teachers have been her patients themselves. Their courage and determination in the face of illness, trauma, and often insurmountable odds, has taught her about the body’s remarkable ability to heal itself, when given the right support. 

 

Maud’s life itself has been marred by such illness. As a child, Maud suffered from childhood asthma and breathing complications so severe, she often wondered if she would make it through the night. It was actually this chronic illness that spurred Maud to discover her love of writing. From the age of eight, writing became her solace - her created worlds spirited her away from the sense of suffocation and into a world of her own imagination.

 

Her skill as a writer paved her way into Stanford's illustrious creative writing program where she honed her skills as a writer and found her voice as an activist. Maud broke barriers by publishing an article in 1970 in The Standford Daily, entitled “Adjusting to Gay Life”, and then in 1971, starting the second gay college student union in American History. Shortly thereafter, The Lesbian Reader re-published her award winning short story “Hands”.